LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari says the Pakistan Peoples Party will not leave the field of local bodies open and will fully participate in the electoral exercise.

“The PPP will fully take part in the local polls in Lahore and elsewhere in Punjab to be held next year,” he said during his visit to Ghurkis here on Tuesday.

He also condoled with Abu Bakr Ghurki the death of his father Arshad Ghurki and offered fateha for the departed soul. Punjab Women Wing president Samina Khalid Ghurki was also present.

Mr Zardari lauded efforts of the Ghurki family for the party and discussed ways and means for strengthening the party at grassroots level.

The former president who has been in the Punjab capital for more than two weeks to oversee the election campaign of the PPP in the NA-133 by-polls, left for Karachi by a special plane on Tuesday evening.

Published in Dawn, December 8th, 2021

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