PPP rally in Lahore vows to foil‘ conspiracy against democracy’

Thousands of PPP activists from Lahore and other districts of the central Punjab staged a rally on Sunday in support of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani besides and vowed to foil any conspiracy against democracy. The rally started from The Mall, near the Lahore Museum and concluded outside the Data Darbar. It had a massive participation of the PPP workers who chanted slogans in support of the party leadership. The rally was led by PPP Central Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich Holding banners, placards and PPP flags, the party workers kept on chanting slogans in favour of President Zardari and against the PML-N leadership. Sources stated all the allied wings of the PPP were allowed to ensure massive attendance in the rally to give a strong message to the PML-N leadership which had already taken to street and ready to go for a long march against Zardari-Gilani government following the conviction of the PM by the Supreme Court. Addressing the participants of the rally, PPP Central Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich said Lahore belonged to Bhutto loyalists in the past and it was still a city of PPP Jiyalas. He said the party Jiyalas, by staging a historic rally, had once again shown the true picture to the PML-N leadership. He said Sharif brothers had no interest in the people of the country which was evident from the fact that they had signed a deal with a dictator and ran away from the country in the hour of need.