LAHORE - PPP-P President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday paid visits to Data Darbar and Bibi Pak Daman ahead of a party meeting in Lahore to shortlist candidates for the upcoming elections.
He was accompanied by PPP Lahore president Haji Azizur Rehman Chan, party ticket holder Faisal Mir and party’s ulema wing president Allama Yousaf Awan. During his week-long stay in the provincial capital, Asif Zardari is scheduled to have meetings with party office-bearers from different Punjab districts to identify potential candidates for the coming polls.
Earlier in the day, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari instructed the party men to speed up their electoral campaign for next general elections.
ZARDARI HOPES FOR PEACE IN 2018
Staff Reporter from Islamabad adds: Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday wished the nation “Happy New Year” on the dawn of 2018, and expressed the hope that the new year would usher in peace and prosperity within the country, the region and the world at large.
In a statement issued here, Zardari said: “Let us resolve on the eve of the New Year to banish militancy and religious extremism from our midst, reject theocracy and draw inspiration from the Quaid-i-Azam (Mohammad Ali Jinnah)’s August 11, 1947 speech that religion will have nothing to do with the business of the state.”