MIRPURKHAS, Aug 28: The divisional president of the Pakistan People’s Party, MNA Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani, has said that the decision regarding the date of Ms Benazir Bhutto return would be made in the party's central executive committee meeting scheduled for September first.

He was talking to reporters at the press club here on Monday.

He said that Benazir Bhutto had categorically said that the president in uniform was not acceptable.

Mr Jilani said that the country was being passing through a crucial stage and the political victimisation has increased during the last eight years in the country.

He said the problems of unemployment, poverty have touched a dangerous levels while jobs were being distributed among favourites through ‘fax’ in the government departments and the bureaucracy was working on dictation.

Mr Jilani said that the PPP’s vote bank was not only intact rather it has increased in Sindh.

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