OKARA, April 6: PPP’s leaders in the district have accelerated their activities to mobilize party workers to give warm welcome to Asif Ali Zardari on his return to the country on April 16. Three major PPP groups in the city and its tehsil office-bearers in Deepalpur and Renala Khurd have started contacting people and party workers to arrange a big welcome event for Mr Zardari.

City MPA and PPP Okara district president Muhammad Ashraf Khan Sohna has started a wall-chalking campaign, urging masses to go to Lahore on April 16 and has started holding corner meetings of the party’s city units.

Similarly, former opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly, Rana Ikram Rabbani has also started mobilizing workers’ groups in the city for the event.

The third group, led by city sub-division PPP president Ch Abdul Sattar Wahla, Capt (Rtd) Rai Mujtaba Kharal, Ch Muhammad Ashraf Sangoka, and Renala Khurd tehsil president Advocate Rana Abdul Rehman are also busy contacting workers.

MURDERED: A man was attacked and killed by his three rivals over litigation.

The three accused, Munawar Hasan, Muhammad Hussain and Muhammad Anwar, along with three unidentified accomplices, opened fire at their rival litigants Muhammad Yasin, Azra Bibi and Iqbal Bibi on their way to Deepalpur Katchy from Mujahid Kit village.

As a result, Yasin died on the spot, while his sister-in-law Azra Bibi got injured. Police have registered separate cases.