The Sindh government has formally approved a police request calling for the suspension of mobile phone services in Karachi on Saturday (tomorrow) as Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will address a mammoth rally at a ground close to the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the provincial capital tomorrow.
The provincial police has requested the suspension of mobile phone services in other parts of Sindh as well. However, the provincial government has yet to take a decision in this regard.
Karachi’s traffic system is also likely to suffer seriously as well on Oct 18 when the PPP stages the rally for which it has hired 3,000 city buses while police authorities have banned movement of heavy vehicles that day, ‘advising’ transporters to take alternative routes.
The rally has been organised to shore up the party’s popularity amongst the masses and it commemorates the anniversary of a massive bomb blast that targeted Mohtarma Banazir Bhutto when she came back to Pakistan after years of exile.
