KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has planned a welcome rally on May 15 for party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on becoming the youngest foreign minister of the country, and before that leading a successful campaign that led to “the fall of the unjust government” of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.

The announcement came on Saturday from the Sindh labour minister and PPP Karachi president Saeed Ghani, who said that the party after postponing the event twice had finally decided the date of the event where “hundreds of thousands of people from Karachi” would welcome Mr Bhutto-Zardari.

Though there was no announcement of the event by the PPP Karachi leadership, the party sources said that foreign minister Bhutto-Zardari would be given a “warm welcome” at the old terminal of Karachi airport where he would land from Islamabad on May 15 and address the workers.

“The Karachi chapter of PPP has now finally decided to hold a huge public gathering in the city on May 15 as the party Chairman would address the occasion,” Mr Ghani told a press conference at the Sindh Assembly.

He recalled that Mr Bhutto-Zardari, while leading the Long March, which began on Feb 27 from Karachi to Islamabad had warned Imran Khan to step down and hold early general elections in the country.

Published in Dawn, May 8th, 2022