Bilawal Bhutto named chairman of PPP
Posted on 12/30/2007 6:56:09 AM PST by RDTF
SLAMABAD, Pakistan — The husband and teen son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have been named co-chairs of her opposition party, sources tell Fox News.
Asif Ali Zardari and 19-year-old Bilawal Bhutto were chosen Sunday as the new leaders of the Pakistan People's Party in the wake of Bhutto's assassination on Dec. 27.
Meanwhile, a Pakistani government source told Fox News that the country's Central Election Commission is considering postponing the upcoming general election in Pakistan until the second week of March to give the parties time to prepare for the elections. A formal anouncement is expected tomorrow.
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Bilawal Bhutto named chairman of PPP
The kid looks scared - not scared enough though.
He’s too young to run and he doesn’t have a degree, so the kid can’t run, but remembering when Corizone Aquino won in the Philipines after her husband was assassinated, this could be a repeast of that.
Business as usual in Pakistan. While the “elites” settle their scores, Islamic fundamentalism eats the country.
Bhutto and family are corrupt. How else do you get to be the wealthiest people in a poor country? The military is the only part of Pakistani society that gives a damn about the average Paki. Not unlike Turkey, only with much more graft. Pervez ain’t a saint, but in a nuclear armed country with a nascent islamofascist movement, he’s the best we can expect. We get a choice among limited and bad options. That’s life. Deal with it.
you’re absolutely right. But we’ll take pro-Democracy over the terrorists any day, right?
If pro-Democracy really means that, yes. Best to remember that the middle east is pretty convoluted and sometimes opaque to the Westerner.
and the ISI.
totally unrelated, but he is a Q.T.
I do feel bad for him though— being just 19 and away at college and suddenly you’re running for engineer on a runaway nuclear train. All while mourning your mom— arg....
Her husband is a crook. He might find himself in jail if he stays in Pakistan. She was pardoned when she returned to the country for looting the treasury while PM, but to my knowledge, the husband hasn’t. The kid can’t run for office because the constitution requires that he have a Masters Degree, which he doesn’t (Yet).
The ISI is part & parcel of the Army establishment,not distinct from it.
If the Army gave a damn about the Average Paki,the country wouldn’t have broken up once & most political & economic power wouldn’t have been concentrated in one province.
Politics make strange bedfellows. Think they’ll live long?
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