Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday began his election drive with a visit to Lyari - a political stronghold of the Bhutto supporters. First, he paid a brief visit to the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, where he laid a sheet over the saint's grave to pay his homage and offered Fateha. However, he confronted an unpleasant incident after a strange man came close and kissed on his cheeks. The PPP leader showed displeasure over the uncalled for frankness.
Later, he drove to Lyari to start his electoral career but strict security however kept him away from people to closely interact with his supporters.
He is being considered as one of the top candidates for the NA 246 with scores of other political aspirants to fight for the slot. He has a political legacy starting from his maternal grandfather - Z A Bhutto to his mother Benazir Bhutto.
With almost a decade of unrest in Lyari that involved infighting between the gangsters, which the opposition blamed on the PPP and MQM, leaving thousands displaced and hundreds dead. The city witnessed a human destruction with billions of rupees extortion from businessmen and target killing of different ethnic groups from 2008 until the Rangers' operation against the MQM in 2016.