LAHORE: In his first solo visit to the province, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday reached Chiniot as part of his visit to flood-affected areas.

Flanked by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Bilawal also visited embankments of relief camps at Sukkur Barrage.

Bilawal resumed political activities after a break of almost one year with a luncheon meeting with journalists in Karachi on Tuesday. While his trip to Lahore had twice been postponed owing to security reasons, his arrival today suggests he is set to wade into political mainstream.

His planned visit to Lahore in April was cancelled at the eleventh hour because of developments on the national scene after the attack on TV anchor Hamid Mir in Karachi. He was to stay in Lahore for a week, along with his father.

He recently announced his decision to take part in the 2018 general elections from late Benazir Bhutto's seat of Ratedero in Larkana.

While the Bhutto scion had earlier distanced himself from politics, in an interview with BBC earlier this year, nearly 26-year-old Bilawal said that the assassination of his mother in 2007 had changed things. He launched his political career on Benazir’s fifth death anniversary, in December 2012.

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