PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will address a public meeting here on Sunday and he will be taken to the venue at Badbher from the airport in a vehicular procession.

Giving details, party’s provincial president Humayun Khan said that all arrangements had been finalised to give a warm welcome to the party chief on his arrival at the airport and then at the venue of public meeting in Badbher area in the suburbs of Peshawar.

He said that senior leaders of the party would accompany the chairman. He hoped that PPP candidate Asad Gulzar would win the NA-4 by-elections as the federal and provincial governments had disappointed the masses.

Mr Humayun said that during the past over four years the rulers did not initiate uplift schemes, but as the by-election was announced the ministers started throwing funds in the area. He urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of what he called pre-poll rigging. He said that PPP would not sit silent on violations of the election code of conduct in the constituency.

Another party leader said that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would arrive at 1:00pm at Peshawar airport and from there he would be taken to the venue of the public meeting in a procession of vehicles.

Meanwhile, a meeting of the PPP workers belonging to NA-2 and NA-3, Peshawar, was held at the residence of former federal minister Arbab Alamgir where they were assigned duties to ensure participation of maximum number of people in the public meeting. Speaking on the occasion, Ms Asma Alamgir said that PPP had roots in masses and would win the by-election. She said that frequent visits by the top leadership would help reorganise the party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before the next general elections.

Published in Dawn, October 22nd, 2017