LAHORE, Sept 7: Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Workers Movement leaders Nahid Khan and Safdar Abbasi have asked President Asif Ali Zardari to separate himself from the Pakistan People’s Party after leaving the presidency and let Bilawal Bhutto run the party affairs.

Presiding over a meeting of the workers of BSWM here on Saturday, Nahid Khan said Zardari and his family members should leave the party as enough damage had been done.

She said instead of displacing Bilawal Bhutto and taking the charge of the PPP again Mr Zardari should stay away from the party affairs for the sake of the PPP.

Mr Abbasi said that Mr Zardari could not assume any political office for two years after completing his five-year term in the presidency.

He said Mr Zardari could not become the head of the PPP as a case regarding its registration was pending in the Islamabad High Court. “Mr Zardari got registered PPP Parliamentarians and separated the PPP creating duality which is not going to be diluted easily.”

He said the registration of the PPP had been controversial as the Election Commission’s decision to register it ‘without a party leader’ having three office-bearers was a joke. The IHC would take up the matter after Sept 9. Mr Abbasi said if Mr Zardari tried to get himself elected the chairman of the PPP it would be unconstitutional and illegal.