IANS
 
Islamabad. Oct 17: The Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) leadership on Tuesday reconfirmed that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto would return to the country Thursday morning as scheduled.

After landing at the Karachi airport, Bhutto would travel to the Bilawal House by road along with more than one million people, the Associated Press of Pakistan quoted a statement of the PPPP as saying. "Benazir Bhutto will lead a mammoth gathering of people coming from all over Pakistan on October 18.

No other mode for her travelling will be accepted in the name of security which separates her from public," Syed Qaim Ali Shah, president of PPPP in Sindh province, said at a press conference in Karachi.

Bhutto has been prime minister twice and "she should be given security equal to prime minister and the president," Shah said, adding that PPPP would make the best possible arrangements for the security of Bhutto and the people gathering in Karachi to welcome her.

President Pervez Musharraf and some high-ranking government officials have advised Bhutto to delay her return because of the pending verdict of the Supreme Court on the National Reconciliation Ordinance, which granted amnesty to Bhutto who was facing several corruption charges in the country.