LAHORE: The PPP celebrated co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari’s birthday in an unusual manner at Liberty Chowk here on Tuesday evening.

Fireworks were arranged and dozens of pigeons were released to mark the event in which some leaders participated by riding horses, apparently to highlight Mr Zardari’s love for horses.

Speaking to party workers present there, central Punjab general secretary Syed Hassan Murtaza said that despite his character assassination the former president laid the foundation for transparent politics.

He said the PPP does practical politics as the party gave a (1973) constitution for the country and safeguarded the same.

Information secretary Shehzad Saeed Cheema and Lahore chapter president Aslam Gill paid tributes to the politics of Mr Zardari and thanked diehard party workers for siding with the PPP and its leadership through thick and thin.

Mr Gill said that party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has been successfully running foreign ministry like his maternal grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother Benazir Bhutto.

Also present on the occasion were Hafiz Ghulam Mohiuddin, Amer Naseer Butt, Sadaqat Sherwani, Sonia Khan, Zahid Zulfikar, Mian Ayub and others.

Earlier, a cake was also cut at the party’s provincial secretariat to mark the birthday, while a seminar to highlight the services of Mr Zardari for democracy was arranged at a local hotel.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2022