Pakistan Govt fears pro-Bhutto outburst
NZPA-Reuter Karachi Pakistan’s military Government has said that there may be serious civil disturbances if the widow and daughter of the executed Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, are allowed to visit his grave on the anniversary of his death on Friday. • The deputy commissioner for Lakarna, the district in which Mr Bhutto is' buried
in central ( Sind province, said in court that members of Mr: Bhutto’s banned Pa-
kistan People’s Party were making plans for a mass pilgrimage to the grave. The deputy commissioner, Mr Rahmadullah, said the demonstration at the grave was being organised under the guise of a Muslim religious ceremony to offer prayers for the dead. He was speaking at the Sind High Court which Js hearing an application from Mrs Nusrat Bhutto and Miss Benazir Bhutto to visit the grave on April 4, the anniversary of Mr Bhutto’s death in Rawalpindi Jail last year.
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