RAHIM YAR KHAN/RAJANPUR Jan 28: The People’s Party believes that red notices against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari are part of the government strategy to weaken the party before the next general elections.

“The notices are meant to dent the party further,” PPP-P president Makhdoom Amin Faheem said on Saturday.

The PPP and ARD leader was talking to newsmen at the RYK’s Shaikh Zayed airport and then at Mithan Kot in Rajanpur district. His visit to Mithan Kot was on the invitation of PPP leader Kh Sharif Koreja.

Fahim said as the government was using every tactic to win the next elections, it was pitching provinces against one another.

Rejecting the notices, he said such a path was adopted to arrest fugitives while the PPP leaders had gone abroad through legal channels.

He also criticized the government on Kalabagh, Balochistan and Bajaur issues.

The PPP leader said the provincial governments in the Punjab had kept south Punjab backward. He said Nishtar Ghat bridge over Indus to link Rajanpur and DG Khan with RY Khan had been a decades-old people’s demand but every provincial government kept the issue on the back burner.

Fahim promised that the PPP, after coming into power, would take the project in hand on an urgent basis. He also laid chadar on the mazar of Khwaja Ghulam Fareed.

In RY Khan he was received at the airport by divisional PPP coordinator MPA Irfan Abdullah, Javaid Hassan Gujjar, Rais Zafar and hundreds of workers.

Former PML district president Rais Mehboob Ahmed joined the PPP on the occasion.