Daily Times

LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) leaders from Sindh have started regular visits of Punjab.

PPP sources told Daily Times that the spirit behind the visits is to make PPP Co-chairman Asif Zardari’s stay in Lahore successful.

Sindh-based PPP leaders are holding press conferences to raise the issues regarding poor governance of the Sharifs in the center as well as in Punjab, sources added. They also said that in the coming days, more leaders would visit central and southern Punjab.

Zardari’s two-week stay in Lahore has breathed a new life into party workers.

On Thursday, Zardari made a phone call to Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chief Tahirul Qadri to enquire about his health. The PPP sources said they exchanged views on the current political situation too.

Sources also said the PPP was planning to use Qadri in the upcoming elections against both the Sharifs and Kaptaan in Punjab.

Later, Zardari left for Islamabad to join PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to hold political meetings with other parties to make election alliances. He will return to Lahore after a couple of days, sources said.

Sindh PPP Secretary Information Aajiz Dhamrah visited Bilawal House Lahore and later held a press conference at the party’s provincial secretariat in Faisal Town on Thursday.

Dhamrah levelled corruption charges against Railway Minister Khawaja Saad Rafiq. He called the PM as Panama Minister. Dhamrah asked, “How could he [Nawaz] serve the nation when his family is involved in corruption?”

He flayed Saad Rafiq for threatening judges and the opposition, adding that the minister was involved in corruption. He said that during Saad’s tenure as many as 197 passengers were killed in more than 500 railway accidents. He demanded that the Supreme Court take notice of corruption in the Railways Ministry. Lashing out at the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Dhamrah termed NAB as protector of the Sharifs in mega corruption charges.