FAISALABAD, Jan 31: Hundreds of PPP activists demonstrated outside the press club and set up a protest camp on Tuesday against, what they called, a media trial of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.

The protesters, holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the government, alleged that the PPP activists were being harassed by the government agencies.

Speaking to the protesters, PPP Divisional President Raja Riaz Ahmad and district president Rana Farooq Saeed Khan alleged that the rulers were jealous of the PPP leadership popularity and a mudslinging campaign had been launched against Benazir Bhutto.

They said the arrests of the PPP workers and leaders in Lahore showed that the provincial administration had planned to push the opposition back to the wall.

They said the marathon was held in Lahore under the government patronage just to divert public attention from the national issues. The PPP leaders protesting peacefully were tortured and rounded up for violating the government instructions.

It was about time that the public came forward and topple the government through street power. They announced setting up of protest camps in major cities and towns of Punjab against the PPP leadership trial.

If the government failed to mend its ways the opposition parties would be left with no option but to launch a movement, the PPP leaders said. They announced that PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari would return soon.

SIALKOT: The People’s Party staged an anti-government demonstration and organized a camp at the Allama Iqbal Chowk against the issuance of notices to party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Zardari by the Interpol.