December 30, 2007
Benazir Bhutto's son Bilawal to lead party
From The Telegraph:
Bilawal Bhutto, who is reading history at Oxford, will chair the Pakistan People's Party with his father, Asif Ali Zardar, as co-chairman. Party officials made the announcement after the reading of Miss Bhutto's will following her assassination last week. It has also been announced that Pakistan's parliamentary elections are likely to be delayed by up to four months in the wake of the assassination, according to the country's ruling party.
Tariq Azim, a spokesman for the party backing President Pervez Musharraf, said conditions had made it too difficult to go ahead with the Jan 8 polls in the wake of the death of the opposition leader and former prime minister.
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An opinion piece by Tariq Ali in the Independent today calls this "a grotesque feudal charade". I think he may be right.
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article3295851.ece
Posted by: Tyrone | Dec 31, 2007 5:55:56 AM
See following link for an article written by Carol Grisanti, compares Ceasar's will to Zardari's intentions and Bhutto's will:
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/02/543701.aspx
Posted by: Shabbir | Jan 2, 2008 6:01:20 PM
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