HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peo­ples Party (PPP) Sindh president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that people of Hyderabad have rejected Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Sept 19 show but they will come in hordes to welcome PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in his first public meeting in the city on Oct 18.

Mr Khuhro said at a workers’ meeting in district council’s lawn on Saturday night that the party workers, including the young and the elderly, men and women would accord a warm welcome to their young leader.

He said that former dictator Pervez Musharraf, who had gone in hiding to avoid appearance in courts, had launched a vitriolic attack on PPP leadership, which was increasingly becoming intolerable for workers.

He demanded that Musharraf be arrested through Interpol and made to face trial in the assassination cases of Benazir Bhutto, Nawab Akbar Bugti and killings of hundreds of other innocent people.

Bilawal’s first big show in city on Oct 18

PPP-Parliamentarians information secretary Maula Bux Chandio said that those who had killed innocent people on the basis of language were now trying to hide and dissociate themselves from their leader.

But on the other hand, he said, the jiyalas, never disowned their leadership despite having to face imprisonment, lashings and hangings. Hyderabad people would accord a historic welcome to the PPP chairman, he said.

Senator Ajiz Dhamrah said that a ‘claimant of fake change’ had held the public meeting with the help of ‘politically dead’ leaders and had to face utter disappointment.

He said that people of this city would prove that Hyderabad did not belong to the ‘abusing brigade’ not to a so-called ‘builder of new Pakistan’ but to the lovers of Bilawal.

He said that Imran Khan left Islamabad while hurling abuses and repeated them in Hyderabad. It showed that he was badly in need of psychiatrist, he said.

PPP MPA Sharjeel Memon said that people of his constituency, PS-50, would fill all the chairs in Oct 18 show and advised people to come earlier to the venue, else, they would have to attend it while standing on their feet.

Hyderabad district chapter president Saghir Qureshi, general secretary Ali Mohammad Sahito, information secretary Ahsan Abro also spoke at the gathering.

Published in Dawn, September 25th, 2017