Asif Ali Zardari has quit the office of Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) co-chairman, making his son Bilawal Bhutto the party's patron-in-chief and that the decision was taken in view of a case in the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the president's dual office.

According to the Dawn, Wasim Sajjad who is a counsel for the federation, had informed the LHC that Zardari was a co-chairman of the PPP, which was a private organisation.

Fact-fully, PPP secretary-general Jehangir Badr and information secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira have been replaced with former Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khosa and former governor of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Barrister Masood Kauser, respectively.

As a concluding fact, the paper said that in the recent intra-party election of the PPP Parliamentarians, Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf were elected president and secretary-general, respectively.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)