Nahid Khan came down hard on her party and showed concerns over the way of governance, lambasting the rulers for sky-rocketing prices, bad governance, and corrupt practices besides the widening gap between the masses and the rulers. – Photo by APP (File)

RAWALPINDI: Nahid Khan, the former political secretary to slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, has launched a campaign to press the government to uncover the assassins of Benazir Bhutto.

On Wednesday, Nahid Khan was invited to a reception hosted by a PPP worker in Dhoke Ratta which eventually turned into a big corner meeting of political activists against the ruling PPP.

The event was organised for Senator Safdar Abbasi, Senator Dr Israr Shah, Nahid Khan and some other PPP workers after their membership of the central executive committee of PPP was suspended.

More than 200 party workers converged on the venue and it seemed as if there was a like-minded group within the ruling PPP keeping in view the anti-government slogans and speeches by the participants.

Former Senator Sardsar Salim and close aide of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Iqtidar Shah, were among the activists who called upon the PPP diehard (jiyalas) to unite and rescue the Bhutto-founded party from the possession of outsiders.

Former in-charge of PPP central secretariat Ibne Rizvi, whose party membership was suspended a week ago, was also present flanked by Malik Mazhar, another PPP worker whose membership as party worker has also been cancelled.

“Wake up and rescue PPP. It is high time to press rulers for arresting the assassins of Ms Bhutto otherwise her sacrifice for the country would go to waste. Wake up and force the usurpers to flee,” Ms Khan asked the gathering.“They have held the party hostage to their own whims. We would continue to demand the arrest of the assassins of Ms Bhutto,’” she said.

She came down hard on her party and showed concerns over the way of governance, lambasting the rulers for sky-rocketing prices, bad governance, and corrupt practices besides the widening gap between the masses and the rulers.

Senator Salim called upon the PPP workers to unite against the forces that had taken the party hostage and said the public in general and the PPP workers in particular were not satisfied with the performance of the PPP-led government