KARACHI: Responding to protests lodged by the nationalist parties in the aftermath of newly passed Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance (SPLGO), Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on wee hours of Saturday announced to hold a rally in Hyderabad on October 15, DawnNews reported.

The decision was taken by the party’s core committee in its meeting held here under the chairmanship of President Asif Ali Zardari.

Speaking to media representatives after the meeting, party’s provincial minister Agha Siraj Durrani said the president believes in the party’s reconciliatory policy and wants to keep the doors of negotiations open.

Durrani informed that the president has given a task of consulting with the defector allies in the province to him. The local government bill can also be amended if required in this regard, he added.