PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is scheduled to pay a one-day visit to Peshawar today (Friday).

A party leader Tariq Raheem told this scribe that Mr Bilawal was expected to spend two or three days in Peshawar during Ramazan, but in the revised schedule the visit was cut short to one day.

He said that the PPP chief would hold a series of meetings and attend an Iftar dinner with the selected people and then leave for Islamabad.

When contacted, Bahramand Khan Tangi, a spokesman for the provincial president, said that it was an important visit wherein the party chairman would have separate meetings with the PPP`s provincial cabinet, elected representatives, former provincial presidents, new office-bearers of various divisions and districts and leaders of different sister organisations.

The meetings, he said, would be held at the residence of provincial president Mohammad Humayun Khan in Peshawar cantonment and Iftar would be hosted at a local hotel.

The basic purpose of the visit, he said, was to keep in touch with the party people and convey them a special policy message of the party in accordance with the prevailing political situation in the country.

He said that the party chairman would also get suggestions from the people about preparations for the next elections.

Mr Tangi said that the visit was part of a countrywide contact drive of the party chairman to meet workers and share opinion with them about new developments in country`s politics. -Bureau Report