KHAIRPUR, Oct 16: President PPP Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the government had launched a campaign to obstruct or at least delay the return of Ms Benazir Bhutto but such tactics would not prove successful. He was talking to different delegations of party workers on Monday.

He said that an eight-year long media trial of Ms Bhutto has failed, while PPP parliamentarians raised their voice in and outside the Parliament against the fake cases and added that despite all the efforts of the government including establishment of special courts, it was not able to prove the charges rather the President General Musharraf himself admitted that the cases against Ms Bhutto and others were without reason.

He maintained that such drama of cases was staged to pressurise PPP leaders but the same had come to its end.

He claimed that under the leadership of Ms Bhutto, a new era of prosperity, employment would usher and the country would come out of the political crisis.

He said that the government had failed to establish political stability in the country during the eight years, economic crisis deepened, the law and order situation worsened so much that even the Islamabad and courtyards of judiciary were unsafe, people witnessed the incidents like May 12, which were never heard before.

He said that many political activists were killed and court proceedings were interrupted by gatherings of political activists under government patronage. He said that the return of Ms Bhutto was a thorn in the eyes of those who were pro-martial law but it was the victory of democratic elements. He said that the chief minister Sindh was caught by PPP-phobia as he had no political future.

He expressed sorrow over death of Pakhar Jagirani, PPP worker and former naib nazim UC Manghanwari and said that an FIR had been lodged against the former SHO police station Ahmedpur and 40-50 other police officials on directives of the court but the police did not arrest any of the accused.

PPP worker Pakhar Jagirani was laid to rest in his native graveyard in Chhatan Shah, taluka Kingri, on Monday.

Scores of PPP workers and relatives including former finance adviser Syed Asad Shah Jilani, president DBA Syed Bachal Shah and others attended his funeral prayers.