PPP Punjab supports Zardari as President

LAHORE - The PPP Punjab parliamentary party meeting held at Governor’s House on Thursday unanimously nominated party’s co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari as candidate for the next President of Pakistan.

Punjab Governor Salman Taseer flanked by PPP’s Punjab Ministers Raja Riaz Ahmed, Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, Ashraf Sohna, Rana Tanvir-ul-Islam and Neelum Jabbar announced this in a briefing held after the meeting at Governor’s House. MPAs including Qasim Zia, Sajida Mir, Uzma Zahid Bokhari, Nazim Hussain Shah, Shuakat Mehmood Basra, Iftikhar Ali Babar Khitran, Pervaiz Rafique, Maj. (R) Abdur Rehman Rana, PPP Lahore President Aziz-ur-Rehman Chann, Sami Ullah Khan and a large number of other parliamentarians were also present.