LARKANA: Thousands of emotionally charged people greeted Pakistan’s Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto when she arrived here at home town Tuesday. People broke the security barriand ran up to the tarmac raising military slogans and vowing to Bhutto back to power. She was taken from the airport in a procession to her residence Almurtaza where she declared “I was elected by the people and I will face them. People are my strength and I am not going to run away and I will face all anti-democratic forces.” Her address was punctuated by slogans of Benazir Zindabad (long live Benazir) and “our lives for here. Bhutto said she was not worried by the charges of corruption filed against her by the president and added that she would face them in an impartial forum.

Article extracted from this publication >> August 24, 1990