KARACHI: The eighth death anniversary of the former prime minister and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto is being observed on Sunday.

People are travelling from different parts of the country to Larkana and Garhi Khuda Baksh, where she is buried at the family mausoleum.

PPP Co-Chairman and son of Benazir, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, is set to preside over a meeting of the party’s central executive committee (CEC) in Naudero for the first time.

PPP Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira earlier told Dawn that CEC meetings were held on the occasions of birth and death anniversaries of Benazir Bhutto and her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to pay homage to them and recall that they had sacrificed their lives for the cause of democracy.

Besides chairing the CEC meeting, Bilawal will address a public meeting after visiting the grave of his mother in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh.

The PPP has set up blood donation camps across the country as a feature of the former PPP Chairperson's death anniversary observance, Radio Pakistan reported.

Bilawal donated blood at a camp in Garhi Khuda Baksh.

PPP leaders are expected to address a public meeting at Liaquatbagh in Rawalpindi, where she was assassinated on Dec 27, 2007.