DADU, Oct 16: The president of Pakistan People’s Party Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, reiterated on Monday that the party chairperson, Benazir Bhutto, would return to contest the 2007 general elections.

He was speaking to reporters at the residence of former provincial minister for law and PPP leader, Pir Mazharul Haq, in Pir Goth after expressing his condolences on the demise of Pir Abdul Hameed, son of former chief minister Sindh, Pir Illahi Bux.

Mr Shah said that the present government’s tall claims that they would succeed in the general elections indicated that the government had made all the arrangements for rigging the polls by changing the results in favour of the ruling party. The party would resist all such moves, he said.

About the islands’ sale to foreign companies, he said that the federal government had no right to sell the islands as the people of Sindh had exclusive right over them. The PPP Sindh would launch a campaign against the federal government for selling the islands, he announced.

Mr Shah said that the present government had failed to provide protection to the masses as the law and order had gone from bad to worse and crime rate had shot up in Karachi and interior Sindh.

He dismissed the PPP’s reported deal with the government as propaganda and said the party would again come to the power through the power of masses.