Tammy Bruce: Bhutto Successor: Her 19-Year Old Son

Bhutto Successor: Her 19-Year Old Son

Bilawal Bhutto, center.

There are a number of reports now that Benazir Bhutto's will names her 19-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto, her political successor. If so, this could mean a great deal if elections were in indeed held (and he is not murdered) Bilawal would be the opposition candidate. This is genius, and gives the Pakistanis an alternative to Benazir while still in some way being able to have her as well.

A Bhutto Successor?

A senior official of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) told TIME late Saturday that the slain former prime minister's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, will likely be named as her political heir and the new party leader on Sunday. PPP members are due to meet to discuss the party's future and to give Bilawal, a student at Oxford, a chance to read his mother's last will and testament.

A Pakistani television news channel also carried reports that Bilawal will be made the new leader, which the channel said accorded with Benazir Bhutto's wishes. If confirmed, the teenager will become the third leader of the 40-year-old center-left party, one of Pakistan's most powerful...The quick anointment of a Bhutto to head the PPP will help rally party members devastated by the assassination of their tough but beloved leader. The party hopes to ride a wave of sympathy in parliamentary elections that are set for Jan. 8 but may yet be postponed in the face of widespread violence around the country.

Benazir Bhutto and her son in 1988.

Related Link:

Official Bhutto Party Website, Pakistan Peoples Party (in English)

Posted by Tammy · December 29, 2007 06:04 PM · Permalink
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i plan to protest in front of the pakistan consulate in nyc for their harboring of bin laden. another use for the plates.........an ex cop in n.c. has the same plates now.

Posted by: getosama at December 29, 2007 07:45 PM

Just lovely a hereditary dynasty! Benazir was better then most in Pakistan but she was no Jeffersonian.

Posted by: Ripper at December 29, 2007 08:28 PM

"They have killed a woman. A beautiful woman. A visible, indeed a conspicuously, spectacularly visible woman.

A woman who made a point not only of holding rallies in one of the world's most dangerous countries, but did so with her face uncovered, unveiled--the exact opposite of the shameful, hidden women, the condemned creatures of Satan, who are the only women tolerated by these apostles of a world without women.

They killed a Jew, Daniel Pearl. They killed Ahmed Shah Massoud, the great guerilla leader against the Taliban, a moderate Muslim, a cultivated man and free spirit. They tried for years to kill a man, Salman Rushdie, who dared say that to be a man is also sometimes to choose your own destiny.

And now they have killed Benazir Bhutto--killed her because she was a woman, because she had a woman's face, unadorned yet filled with an unswerving strength, because she was living out her destiny and refusing the curse that, according to the new fascists (the jihadists) floats over the human face of women. They killed this woman incarnation of hope, of spirit, of the will to democracy, not only in Pakistan, but in all the lands of Islam."

From: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110011059

Posted by: AntonK at December 30, 2007 05:00 PM

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