NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 10: The chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto Ms Ghinwa Bhutto said on Saturday that Mumtaz Bhutto would decide the candidate for NA-207 Larkana as it was initially his father’s.

Talking to journalists after expressing condolences with Syed Abrar Ali Shah over the death of his brother MPA Syed Manzoor Ali Shah in Halani she said that Zulfiqar Ali junior and Fatima Bhutto were the legal heirs of this seat for which Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had contested.

She said that the present government would not restore the judges because America was opposed to it. Her party would not contest by-elections, she added.

She said that she respected Makhdoom Amin Fahim and said that he would be welcomed if he wished to join her party.

—Correspondent

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