RAWALPINDI, April 4: The law-enforcement agencies denied Pakistan People’s Party workers and leaders entry into the Jinnah Park (old central Jail Rawalpindi) to offer Fateha and Quran Khawani for late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who was hanged at the very place on April 4, 1979.

A large number of PPP workers assembled at the spot at 9:00am, but they were stopped from entering the park. Afterwards, they offered the Fateha for the departed soul outside the park.

The party leaders including Sultan Mehmood Qazi, MNA Fauzia Habib, Abdul Rashid Sheikh Advocate, Sumaira Gull, Rukhsana Bangish, Nasir Mir, Sohail Pasha, Iqbal Razzaq Butt, Mian Khuram Rasul, Sardar Shaukat Hayat, Jaffar Hussain Shah were present on the occasion.

On the occasion, Sultan Mehmood Qazi, Fauzia Habib and Nasir Mir criticized the government for not allowing the PPP workers to offer Fateh for the founding chairman of the PPP. They termed it an injustice and violation of human rights.