Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has officially taken over the PPP’s affairs as he presided over his first meeting with the leaders of the PPP’s information wings on Tuesday.
The meeting was held at the Bilawal House in Karachi when the younger Zardari arrived from Larkana after making some public appearances in the district.
This was Bilawal’s first party meeting that he held independently after officially entering Pakistani politics.
The PPP chairman, whom the participants of the meeting briefed on the operations of the information wings, ordered their leaders to increase activities of their respective wings.
Bilawal directed establishing media cells in all four provinces of the country to strengthen the functioning of the party.
He also directed making arrangements for the training of the party’s information secretaries.
He said instead of adopting an aggressive approach for dealing with negative news regarding the party, the PPP leaders should tackle such information in a technical manner.
Talking to the media after the meeting, Federal Information Secretary Qamruzzaman Kaira said the PPP’s young chairman wants the youth to join the party.
Kaira also said Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s significance was only because of the PPP, and termed Qureshi’s statement regarding the country’s nuclear assets as pointless.
Moreover, Sindh Information Minister Shazia Marri told the media that the PPP is working on a new line of action.
Pakistan Ambassador Designate to US Sherry Rehman, Farahnaz Ispahani, Farzana Raja, Abdul Qadir Patel and PPP’s information secretaries for all four provinces also attended the meeting.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani arrived in Karachi and called on Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan at the Governor’s House to discuss the current political situation.
Gilani is also expected to meet the PPP chairman at the Bilawal House.
The prime minister is also scheduled to inaugurate the UAE’s exhibition at the Expo Centre on Wednesday.
Younger Zardari takes over the reigns of PPP
