Bhutto’s return schedule reconfirmed

Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) leadership on Tuesday reconfirmed that Benazir Bhutto, chairperson of PPPP and former prime minister would return to the country on Thursday morning as scheduled.

After landing at the Karachi airport, Bhutto would travel to Bilawal House by road along with more than one million people, the Associated Press of Pakistan quoted a statement of the PPPP as saying.

“Benazir Bhutto will lead a mammoth gathering of people coming from all over Pakistan on October 18. No other mode for her traveling will be accepted in the name of security which separates her from public,” President of PPPP in Sindh province, Syed Qaim Ali Shah said at a press conference in the southern port city Karachi on Tuesday.

More than 250 people including media persons and foreign diplomats would accompany Bhutto. Islamabad,

Wednesday, Xinhua