MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 3: Leaders and activists of Peoples Party Azad Kashmir (PPAJK) staged a rally here on Wednesday to herald their support to their party's co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, vying for the office of president of Pakistan.

The rally which was led by PPAJK president Chaudhry Abdul Majeed MLA began from the Legislative Assembly building and culminated at the shrine of Sain Sehaili Sarkar, opposite to the town's press club.

Riding motorbikes, jeeps, cars and other vehicles, hoisting PPP flags, the PPAJK workers made victory signs and shouted pro Zardari slogans as the rally drove through the main thoroughfare.

Traffic movement on the route of the rally came to a standstill and it took almost one hour to the motorists to pass through a distance of hardly 500 metres in the absence of any alternative route.

PPAJK spokesman Shaukat Javed Mir said that similar rallies were being held across AJK on the direction of party president.