Naudero: The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) on Sunday unanimously elected former president and party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the party’s new president for Sindh.
The slot had fallen vacant after the party’s previous president Makhdoom Amin Fahim had passed away after prolonged illness on November 21, 2015.
The decision endorsed by senior party leaders and office bearers was taken during the central executive committee meeting of the PPP at Naudero House on Sunday evening. The meeting was chaired by PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.
Briefing the media after the meeting, former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and former interior minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said that they offered prayers for Fahim before unanimously electing Zardari as his replacement.
Further, they said the party leadership discussed important developments particularly the recently concluded local government elections and the tussle between Sindh and the federal government over powers for the paramilitary Rangers.