SUKKUR: A large number of workers of the Pakistan Peoples Party and its sister organisations staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Saturday in protest against the use of offensive language by speakers at the Azadi March in Islamabad against senior PPP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah.

The leaders of the PPP, the party’s youth wing, labour wing, lawyers’ wing, ladies wing and the Sindh Peoples Student Federation who had arrived from Kandhra, Rohri, Pano Akil, Salehpat and other areas adjoining Sukkur, led the protest.

They said the party leadership was trying its best to resolve the current crisis through negotiations which was the only way for the politicians to solve issues.

PPP leadership had laid down great sacrifices for the cause of democracy and at present the party’s senior leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah was playing his role to save democracy and not to save the present rulers or their government.

They criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan for using insulting language against their senior leader and warned him against repeating such language, adding that otherwise nobody could stop the angry workers of the PPP.

Published in Dawn, August 24th , 2014