Thousands of Pakistan PeopleÂ’s Party workers left for Karachi on over 100 buses from here on Tuesday, to take part in the welcome reception of PPP Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto at Karachi Airport. PPP Lahore President Haji Azizur Rehman Chan left by train accompanied by over 1,000 workers and zonal presidents. PPP Secretary-General Jehangir Badr told Daily Times that every party candidate had been asked to send at least one bus full of workers to Karachi, and, all of them had dispatched more than one bus. He said hundreds of people left for Karachi on their own vehicles to welcome Benazir Bhutto. He said the welcome reception would be bigger than the last one in 1998 and those who claimed that people were not with Benazir would see for themselves.
He said party workers were law-abiding citizens but would not tolerate any hurdles created by law enforcement agencies to stop them from welcoming their leader. Badr said it was the moral duty of every party worker to reach Karachi and like other party leaders and workers, he and his son have dispatched two buses for Karachi.
Lahore President Haji Azizur Rehman Chan, at the Railways Station, said nobody could stop Benazir from coming to Pakistan and people wanted genuine democracy, which could only be possible under her leadership.