PPP-SB workers warmly welcome Fatima Bhutto.

LARKANA -- Amid slogans of 'Zulm ka khatma [end to repression], Fatima Fatima' and welcome chants, emotionally charged activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) warmly received Fatima Bhutto, the daughter of the party's founder Mir Murtaza Bhutto, when she returned home after a gap of seven years on Saturday.

Senior party leaders had informed media personnel that she would speak to them during the visit but she avoided a press talk, though she discussed various issues with party leaders and workers.

A large number of PPP-SB leaders and activists received Fatima Bhutto when she arrived at Sukkur airport and escorted her to Bhuttos' mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in a caravan of vehicles. Prominent among them were PPP-SB's Larkana division organiser Inayat Umrani, Ali Ahmed Palipoto and Dr Sikandar Jatoi.

She laid wreaths on the graves of her grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and other members of the Bhutto family and offered fateha. She also stood silent for some time beside her father's grave to pay respect to him.

Party workers showered rose petals and flowers on the graves while continuing to raise slogans, one of them against PPP co-chairman and former head of state Asif Ali Zardari.

Fatima Bhutto was also warmly welcomed...