PPP members face arrest for violence after assassination

Karachi: Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) says thousands of its workers are facing rioting and arson charges after violence following her assassination.

Party leaders said police had been arresting party members all over Sindh province in recent days.

Over 50 people were killed in the rioting after Bhutto's death, most of them in her home province of Sindh.

Reports from the BBC say the PPP has avoided going into "agitation mode" so far following the killing of its leader.

Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, a senior leader of the PPP in Sindh, said the party had been collating police reports filed since Ms Bhutto's assassination.

He told the BBC, "I can tell you that thousands of PPP workers have been nominated in police reports from every district of Sindh province."