THATTA, June 21: Pakistan People’s Party leaders here on Saturday claimed that the rulers were afraid of Benazir Bhutto’s worldwide recognition as a great leader and that was why they were not letting her come home.

They were speaking at a function organized at the Soomro Manzil here to mark PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s golden jubilee birthday.

PPP leaders observed that no political family throughout the world had given sacrifices for the rights of the people like the Bhutto family in Pakistan.

PPP central information secretary Taj Haider, MPA Sassui Palijo, former MPAs Ghulam Qadir Palijo, Dr Wahid Soomro, former MNA Babu Ghulam Hussain, Imtiaz Qureshi, Ghulam Ali Khwaja and others spoke on the occasion and paid tribute to the exiled leader.

They said the rulers were shy to permit the PPP leader to come home and solve problems of the country. The rulers, speakers said, believed that by allowing Benazir to return home, their own political entity and authority would be vanished.

Sassui Palijo said Benazir Bhutto was facing all sort of state atrocities like Aung San Suu Kyi in Mayanmar. She criticized the MQM for its policy on the greater Thal canal.

Speakers were of the view that days of this government had been numbered.