LARKANA: Quran khwani was held at the Bhuttos’ mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto village as well as at Pakistan Peoples Party’s offices across the province on Thursday to mark the 45th death anniversary of the party founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

The anniversary was observed with utmost simplicity in honour of the holy month of Ramazan on districts level throughout the country as the party had postponed the main programme to April 14.

PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari along with Ms Faryal Talpur, chairperson of PPP women’s wing, visited Bhuttos’ mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto on Thursday.

Accompanied by PPP Sindh president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, ministers Aijaz Jakhrani, Nasir Shah, Zulfikar Ali Shah, Gul Muhammed Jakhrani and other party leaders, they spread flowers on the graves of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Begum Nusrat Bhutto,

Mir Murtaza Bhutto and Mir Shahnawaz Bhutto and offered fateha.

Khuhro said in a press statement that Bhutto’s ‘judicial murder’ was a ‘black chapter’ in the country’s history though Supreme Court had tried to remove the stain from the judiciary’s record with its verdict.

After the court’s admission that Bhutto was denied opportunity of a ‘fair trial’ he (Bhutto) should be declared a national hero, he said.

In Karachi, Quran khawni was held at the party’s city headquarters, People’s Secretariat, which was attended by a large number of party workers. Senior PPP leaders Senator Waqar Mehdi, Sindh minister Saeed Ghani, MNA Shahhida Rahmani and several other leaders and legislators attended the programme and offered prayers for the founding chairman of their party.

Published in Dawn, April 5th, 2024