HYDERABAD, Nov 29: Sindh People's Party Parliamentarians president Syed Qaim Ali Shah announced here on Sunday that a public meeting would be held at the Ali Garden in Lahore on Nov 30 to commemorate the founding day of the PPP and a procession from Hyderabad to Karachi will be taken out on December 7.

He was briefing journalists on proceedings of the party's provincial executive committee meeting held at the residence of Qazi Asad Abid. Mr Shah said the public meeting would be held in Lahore because the party had been founded in that city in 1967. He said the founding day would be celebrated later at the divisional and district level.

He said according to the programme, the procession would pass through Thatta and its main objective would be to put pressure on the government to withdraw false cases against party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari.

He said the procession would terminate at the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam where Makhdoom Mohammad Amin Fahim and other central party leaders would speak at the gathering. The PPP leader made it clear that the procession would be taken out even if the government or the administration tried to create hurdles because it was the right of people to hold peaceful protests.

He said instead of entering into a confrontation with the masses, the Sindh chief minister should try to restore law and order. He said the meeting had adopted a resolution expressing confidence in the leadership of Ms Bhutto.