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Published 26 Mar, 2009 12:00am

Bilawal Bhutto visits Larkana

LARKANA, March 25 Pakistan People`s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived at President House camp office in Naudero on Wednesday.

He was accompanied by his four classmates from Oxford University.

Bilawal, along with Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza, Local Bodies Minister Agha Siraj Durrani and General Secretary PPP Larkana Anwar Bhutto paid a visit to the final resting place of Bhuttos in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto.

He spent some time inside the mausoleum by laying floral wreath and offering Fateha at the graves, especially at his mother`s.

People had gathered outside to have a glimpse of their young leader and cheered him by waving hands and chanting slogans in favour of Bhuttos with the demand to arrest and punish Benazir`s killer/s.

The PPP Chairman also took a round of Larkana campus of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST). He was accorded warm welcome by both the management and the students.

He was briefed by Abdul Razzak Soomro, former ambassador to the UAE and now member of the board of trustees of SZABIST, and campus in-charge M.B.Soomro.

People thronged the area on coming to know of their leader`s arrival in the city.

He made brief stops at the shrine of Qaim Shah Bokhari, Bundar road and fish market. He bought fruit and Ajrak from a shop on Bundar road where a large number of people showered him and his classmates with rose petals.

He also visited the on-going development work being carried out in the city and returned back to Naudero. He regretted speaking to media.

PROTEST The protest of a group of the educated youth hailing from Garhi Khuda Bakhsh entered seventh day on Wednesday when they marched from the Bhuttos` mausoleum to the camp office of President House Naudero.

They were demanding jobs and alleged that local leadership was deliberately ignoring them though they had been the staunch workers of PPP and remained the polling agents in elections in NA-207.

The protestors carrying banners, placards and chanting slogans marched from Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto to camp office of President House Naudero.

After covering six kilometers distance, they staged a sit-in for about half an hour outside the camp office of the President House. Ashique Leghari, who led the protest, was called in where he presented a memorandum to the Bisharat Zardari. He assured them of submitting their memorandum to President Asif Ali Zardari and Ms Faryal Talpur the MNA from NA-207 (the constituency of Ms Benazir Bhutto).

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