LAHORE, Sept 23: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab leaders decided on Sunday to start a campaign for the reception of PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto and next parliamentary elections. It said both movements would achieve a resounding success.

A resolution adopted by the Punjab PPP general council, chaired by Punjab President Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, instructed party’s organisations at all tiers across the country to prepare for “elections and a revolution” that would usher in an era of a democratic Pakistan and an end to the military rule for good.

The council’s five-hour session was attended by divisional coordinators, district presidents and members of the national and provincial assemblies. All participants supported the party for “resisting” the regime and simultaneously working for national reconciliation.

They said the party had adopted a policy which was the need of the hour in a situation where rulers and certain “wayward” opposition parties were fuelling confrontation and augmenting the extremists’ threat to national integrity.

The PPP, they said, was mindful of its duty and had made a strategy that promoted a democratic culture, political tolerance and the will to resist dictatorship in all its forms.

They also vowed to make the reception of the party chairperson’s return home on Oct 18 a historic occasion. They told the council that workers’ caravans from all over the province would converge in Rahim Yar Khan on the evening of Oct 16 and enter Sindh for a journey to the Karachi airport the next day. Mr Qureshi said if any provincial government tried to disrupt the party’s way to Karachi, “We will fight them”.