LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari held a meeting with industrialists and businessmen here on Sunday.
Itwasorganisedattheresidence of Shahzad Ali Khan, former president of AllPakistan Textile Manufacturers Association and son-inlaw of Mian Manzoor Wattoo, and attended by around 100 people.
Many believed that it`s more an attempt at reinvigorating the traders` wing of the PPP than making a dent into the `constituency` of the Sharifs. The meeting continued till late in the evening as the participants discussed ways and means for future line of action of the party and the next budget.
Senator Salim Mandviwala told the media waiting for hours outside the venue that Mr Zardari assured the businessmen of provision of gas supply to Punjab factories and resolving their otherissuesif the PPP would come into power.
Urging them to `frame` instead of following (government) policies, he said the party would implement these policies af ter forming government. He said the PPP protest worried the PML-N government as it supplied uninterrupted power supply particularlyin the provincial capital of Punjab when a protest day was announced against it.
Meanwhile, ex-ticket holder of PML-Q for PP-61 (Faisalabad) Khalid Pervaiz called on Mr Zardari at Bilawal House and announced joining the PPP.
