PPP to run special train to Larkana for Benazir’s death anniversary

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Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Lahore chapter has decided to run a reserved train from Lahore to Larkana city in lieu of a special ceremony being conducted on the eve of the party’s assassinated chairperson Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s fourth death anniversary on December 27.
This was decided in a special meeting of the PPP Lahore chapter, chaired by party President and Federal Minister Samina Khalid Ghurki, at a local hotel on Tuesday. All office bearers, including General Secretary Akbar Khan, Information Secretary Abid Sadiqi, Afnan Butt, Khurram Farooq and others participated in the meeting.
Party leaders decided that they would participate in the main event scheduled at Garhi Khuda Baksh and for that purpose, a special train would be reserved for the party workers who wanted to go Larkana.
Party sources revealed that some of the party leaders said they should observe the death anniversary in Lahore, but most opted to go Larkana to show the party’s strength with the mainstream.
PPP Lahore President Samina Ghurki said her party had a long history of sacrifices and it would also ready to give more sacrifices in the future for the betterment of the nation and for strengthening the democratic system of the country.