NAWABSHAH: Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman and former president of the country, Asif Ali Zardari, has asked the party workers to gird up their loins and be prepared for the upcoming general elections.

Mr Zardari said at a gathering of workers and notables of Urdu-speaking community at Zardari House here on Wednesday that his party had always served people without any discrimination and it would continue to serve them when the party came to power.

He said the PPP government had provided facilities to business community and traders.

Nawabshah was his native town where his elders were buried. Development schemes for the facilitation of public would be launched through public private partnership, he said.

He asked Nawabshah Mayor Qazi Rasheed Bhatti to prepare development schemes for the city and they would provide special funds to the city as soon as PPP formed government.

A press release issued by the party quoted Mr Zardari as saying “We saved Pakistan by raising slogan of ‘Pakistan Khapay’ and will save the country again.”

He praised party workers and said they were front line soldiers in the struggle for the supremacy of democracy and constitution. Workers should gird up their loins and be fully prepared for the upcoming elections, he said.

He listened to suggestions put forward by workers and notables. Mr Zardari would continue meeting party workers on Thursday, said party sources.

Ex-MPAs Ghulam Qadir Chandio, Tariq Masood Arain, Bahadur Khan Dahiri, Ali Hasan Zardari and Urdu-speaking community’s notables Kamran Qayoom Qureshi, Sattar Qureshi, Advocate Arshad Qureshi, Tehzeeb Kazmi, Dr Shamim Haider, Saeed Ahmed Yousufi, Shahrukh Rasheed Bhatti and others were present at the meeting.

Published in Dawn, November 2nd, 2023