HYDERABAD, June 12: People's Party Parliamentarians MNA Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur, who has recently returned from London, has said that the party leader Benazir Bhutto has decided to return to Pakistan immediately in view of the political situation in the country.

In a statement on Friday, he said that the central executive committee of the party had authorized the Sindh chapter to select the airport for the arrival of Ms Bhutto.

He said that the party had been asked to make all preparations for the return of chairperson at one month's notice.

The MNA said that the parliamentary democracy had become a misnomer in Pakistan.

He said that this was the reason that Benazir Bhutto had decided to return to home to fill the political vacuum.

Mr Talpur demanded that the government should take strong steps to rectify the situation in Gilgit, Wana and Karachi instead of finding convenient scapegoats.

HESCO: The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company has served a final notice on the Hyderabad Cantonment Board to clear its huge arrears by June 20, failing which power supply to the board will be disconnected.

A spokesman of the company in a statement on Friday said that an amount of Rs69.4 million was outstanding against the board upto May 2004.

The spokesman said that the board had been informed in writing that Hesco was a commercial organization and it could not bear the burden of arrears.

He said that the irony was that the cantonment board had even failed to deposit the monthly power bills what to talk of arrears.

KATI: DPO Dadu Javed Odho has said that the police department cannot control law and order situation without the support of people.

Talking to members of the Kotri Association of Trade and Industries on Thursday, he said that the 15 Madadgar police force would be established in Kotri to provide immediate police help to the people.

Mr Odho assured the association that problems of industrialists relating to law and order would be resolved on priority basis as the KATI was the second largest industrial area of Sindh.

Acting chairman KATI Tariq Baloch apprised the DPO about the prevailing law and order situation of the area.

A large number of industrialists of Kotri, president Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Emad Siddiqui and Mohammad Yaqoob were present on the occasion.