SUKKUR Aug 8: The People's Party Parliamentarians has called for restoration of sovereignty of parliament and demanded that people be taken into confidence on major internal and external issues faced by the country.

The party also believed that it was essential for political forces to join on one platform to restore the 1973 Constitution in its true form as it had been amended by successive regimes to suit their ends.

This was stated by the deputy secretary-general of the party, Senator Raza Rabbani, while speaking at a seminar on the "Role of youth in current social and political situation" here on Sunday.

The PPP Sukkur city organized the seminar. MNA Syed Khursheed Shah was the chief guest at the seminar which was attended by over 5,000 youths. Mr Rabbani paid rich tributes to the late prime minister Z.A. Bhutto for giving the country a viable and unanimous constitution, which provided vital safeguards to Pakistan's national unity and its security.

He gave him the credit of raising nation's morale in the wake of the fall of Dhaka in 1971, and by successfully repatriating Pakistan's prisoners of war. MNA Khursheed Shah, MPA Dr Nasrullah Baloch, Jamil Sahto, Mushtaq Surahyo, Yaqoob Bhutto and former MPA Ghulam Mustafa Bozdar also spoke on the occasion.