Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Women Wing President Faryal Talpur met Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider Khan at the Governor’s House in Lahore on Sunday, 24NewsHD TV reported.
According to the channel, the meeting focused on the country’s political situation and the restructuring of the PPP in Punjab.
Talpur praised the governor for turning the Governor’s House into a public place, saying party representatives, workers and jiyalas should not feel neglected or ignored. She urged them to reach every nook and corner of the province and carry the message of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto to the people.
The governor said her visit to Punjab would significantly boost the morale of PPP workers and help organise the party at the grassroots level in the province.
Talpur also held a separate meeting with the party’s divisional and district-level women office-bearers and workers, discussing the organisation of the women’s wing in Punjab.
She said former prime minister Benazir Bhutto remained a role model for women and had always supported women’s freedom and their welfare.
Talpur announced that after becoming prime minister, Bilawal Bhutto would award houses and land to poor women in Punjab.
The meeting came during Talpur’s four-day visit to Lahore, which she began on Thursday with the stated aim of strengthening the PPP’s organisation in Punjab, particularly its women’s wing. She told journalists during the visit that she would travel to Punjab regularly to oversee party affairs and dismissed suggestions that the party had grown politically weak in the province.
Talpur arrived in Lahore on Thursday and was received at Allama Iqbal International Airport by former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and other senior PPP leaders. The PPP’s People’s Secretariat in Model Town was specially decorated to welcome her, and she has held a series of meetings with party leaders and office-bearers since her arrival. Her brother, President Asif Ali Zardari, is also in Lahore, where he met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
During the visit, she also chaired a meeting of the PPP Punjab Executive at the People’s Secretariat in Model Town, Lahore, attended by senior party leaders including former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and PPP Central Punjab General Secretary Syed Hassan Murtaza.
