TAXILA, Jan 31: Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Quaid Nawaz Sharif is all set to visit Taxila on Friday to rally support for the party and revive the strength of PML-N voters who mostly remained out of the political scene during the last seven years.

Mr Sharif was to hold a rally in the town on December 27 but the programme was put off in the wake of the assassination of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh the same afternoon.

The upcoming visit aims at not only motivating the party activists but also to secure the divided vote after the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s boycott of the elections.

PML-N workers told this correspondent that a rousing welcome would be accorded to Nawaz Sharif in Taxila, which was once described as “Mini Model Town”.

They said reception camps would be established near the Margalla Hills from where the convoy of the former prime minister would proceed to the rally venue, the Kohistan House.