ISLAMABAD, June 16: The secretary-general of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Jehangir Badr, has urged the party workers not to resort to the extreme steps like self-immolation as a protest against detention of former senator Asif Ali Zardari and preventing Benazir Bhutto from returning home.

Mr Badr was reacting to the recent incident of self- immolation attempt on Tuesday by Sardar Khan Jarwar, an activist of the People's Students Federation in Sindh. However, he was prevented by the people on the spot.

Earlier, in Shikarpur, Dhani Bukhsh Memon and Sikander Bhand in Dadu committed self-immolation as a protest against the government. Mr Badr said the party and its leaders value the lives of their workers as very high and appealed to them on behalf of the party chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto not to resort to such extreme steps of protest.