KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will begin his electoral politics career and public relations campaign from Larkana on the date of his mother Benazir Bhutto’s death anniversary – December 27, this year.
Starting January 2013, Bilawal will tour several districts across the country along with party’s central leadership and will hold meetings with party leaders and members.
His tour will begin from the Lyari area of Karachi, said PPP sources who added that President Asif Ali Zardari has been holding meetings with party’s senior leadership regarding country’s political situation and other party affairs.
The president also held extensive talks during his Multan visit, after which he directed Bilawal to take responsibility of party’s crucial matters.
A committee, consisting of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Jahangir Badar, Amin Fahim, Khurshid Shah, Naveed Qamar, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Manzoor Watto, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Faryal Talpur and eight other senior party members, has been constituted to assist Bilawal.
The committee, along with the party chairman, will decide on the strategy to be adopted during the upcoming elections.
All party leaders have been directed to initiate public relations campaign immediately and all federal and provincial ministers, MNAs, MPAs and senators have been directed to ensure their presence at least two days in offices in all cities, districts, tehsils, towns and wards. They were directed to contact the people and try to solve their problems.
According to sources, the PPP government will also issue a report on the party’s performance during the past five years in power. The central party leadership has issued directives to the information department in this regard.
The original story was published in Roznama Express on November 18, 2012.
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He does not know even ABC of Pakistani politics. He has no knowledge of problems which Pakistan is facing now. PPP Government of which he is Chairman has plunged the country in the darkness and has done nothing for the country and the poor people of Pakistan during the last five years except corruption. People are now fully aware of their rights and will vote for PPP onl after seeing its past performance in 5 years which is extremely disappointing. There is democracy in the country and not monarchy. At present he is underage and cannot contest any election However there is no harm if he enters politics.
Bilawal bhutto, The Last Empire,
"The central party leadership has issued directives to the information department in this regard"
Doubt they'll have anything for that report..!!
yet infant i like u bcz like ur mother plz never except other than ur own blood name be careful those how advise u to change of c.
One thing is for sure that this family is starving for power and if we (Pakistanis) had even an ounce of sense we would realize that. Bilawal holds the top position in his party just because of his mother was bhutto. The fact that their father changed their names to bhutto definetly not out of love for his wife (Benazir) but to fool the public that his (zardari's) kids are bhutto and they are born to rule this country!?! this is ridiculous and comical. Some people even go to the extent saying Bilawal is the next P.M. He has achieved nothing in his life yet and hasn't proved anything unlike his mother. Not questioning his intelligence but he should prove himself worthy. IMHO no PPP this time round. May Allah give us all sense.
there is no more chance for bilawal and other ppp's leaders in future and also not for 14 muslim leagues . this is a new pakistan , because educated peoples will active in this election.
@akhan: . "...Politics is nothing but business for these people." . Politics is nothing but business. Period.
Bilawal is no different. PPP is deceiving people of Pakistan yet again with slogan of a "new face" . One who doesn't even live in Pakistan , doesn't know how to speak urdu properly, didn't earn his way into politics doesn't deserve any right whatsoever to represent Pakistani people. Politics is nothing but business for these people.
Zardari,s Pakistan;who wants?
After the 18th Amendment, a party head has become so strong that he can even unseat a sitting PM of his party and if he is also the President, enjoying immunity, as is the case these days in Pakistan, the system can be termed anything but democracy. Add to it the 'biradari system' the present dispensation is turning into a dynastic monarchy in which the off-shoots of the present leadership would automatically inherit the throne - welcome zil-e-subhan, His Majesty King Bilawal to the take over and rule the country.
@Salma: You should be saying "may God keep Pakistan safe". His father and his lackeys have caused more damage to Pakistan in last 4 years than all the dictators and NS and BB have since partition. If anything, he cant be better than his dad. This will be the final nail in Pakistans coffin.
@ Salma yes right.. so he can make other Pakistani's life miserable
Pleaseeee... let us live... don't come...
@Salma:
Insha Allah....
@Anonymous: He is Grandson of Shaheed Z.A. Bhutto and SON of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.. Keep in touch with history and be Pakistani Mister who......Anonymous ?
Hamid H Khan
@Ali:
Good Ali, It is up to you ,either you vote to Bilawal or donot. It is democracy, PPP is not begging your vote...
Hamid H Khan
geo Bhutto!!!!!!!
@hamid: My dear that is security not protocol, because for a National Leader Security is Must....
Hamid H Khan
May God keep him safe.
"They were directed to contact the people and try to solve their problems". As if they really care about the people's problems, with another term there will be another 5 years of misery. Allah bless Pakistan & its Citizens.
The mockery of a nation....
Love Bhutto Love Bilawal Vote for Bilawal
Me and My All family members must vote for Bilawala Bhutto Zardari...We are BBZ Lover forever
he does so at his peril. they will try and kill him.
On 27th December? on the day of her mother's death. So strange, all play for politics and power. can we say that it is the politics on BLOOD. Again tthey will cry to emotionalize these innocent Pakistani people. we pray Allah brings honest and sincere local rulers. Let us protect and secure Pakistan before it is too late. Pakistni do not this Zardari's son, they are waiting for the son of this Soil....a true man and a man of chracter.
The kid who lived his whole life out of Pakistan is now back to rule on us...Shame on our nation for electing these dictators
If some prestige remain of Pakistan in the world will be finish
He has no knowledge of problems which Pakistan is facing now-a-days. What has his father done for Pakistan during the past five years and what PPP government has done for the people of Pakistan.? They have done nothing during the last fiive years and what expectations can be fulfilled by this new chap? Pakistan was not created for new and new experiments and for a few families. The nation has bitter experience and there is no scope for politics for this new entrant in politics. Let him start politics from the Union Council as a Union Council Member so that he may know the problrms which the people of this country are facing..Gone are the days when people used to elect the Members of assemblies on the basis of their family background or the performance of their father or mother in the past.
Prime Minister of Pakistan? What does he know about this land other than his mother died here? For god's sake, you have to one of us to represent us. You are a foreigner.
Always well wishes for him and confirms always stand with him.
On the road to become the next prime minister of Pakistan. PPP will vacate a seat for him as soon as he turns 25 and get him elected as MNA and then prime minister of Pakistan.
New star of pakistani politics is born Likely to outshine all others
Don't they realize that the young Pakistanis are tired of dynastic politics?? Another "prince" is being imposed upon us to rule over his majesty's subjects. Contrast this with Rahul Gandhi in India. He was 20 years old when Rajiv Gandhi was killed in 1991 but the Congress party was mature enough or rather he himself was sane enough not to jump into the pilot's seat. Rahul Gandhi entered politics in 2004 at the age of 34 and even then he was not pushed into a leading role in Indian politics and has been given other responsibilities and is being groomed over the last 8 years. It would be better for Bilawal and more so for the country if he makes his own way to the top gradually after spending some time in the country, among the country's masses, over whom his family thinks he is born to rule.
Good thing this is a Democracy, not a Monarchy- oh wait... -_-
The pampered kid is finally being given the reigns of family business. Fate of 178million Pakistani comes with it but that's just a minor inconvenience that he's been told to ignore already I'm sure.
Think I'll add Bhutto to my name and try my luck too ..
Under prevalent conditions it would be pragmatic to beef up the security around Bilawal. The mischief makers seem to have upper hand. They are able to penetrate, what would presumably be some of the most well guarded places in the country. . A well trained special detachment of snipers on strategic spots would keep their eyes on anything suspicious. A few helicopters can be commandeered to hover over the areas where folk would gather to catch a glimpse of the candidate. . . BSF, (Bilawal Security Forces) should comprise of Lyariites who have proven to be the most devoted loyalists of the family.
he's not a BHUTTO , can we all collectively be reminded that we have another zardari coming our way, PLEASE, can we stop adding the word bhutto after his name. this is insane, he cant even speak our language and wants to join politics!!!
As long as its not the public money.
The contrast could not be clearer. PTI internal party elections vs. Bilawal's state of the nation tour. The choice has never been clearer actually. If we manage to screw this up then we deserve what's going to happen to us in the next 5 years.
I suppose his entry will be from the top by a parachute.
Family dictatorship in the name of sham democracy.
More full time duty on the way for police and security agencies.
I would vote and why not, he is young and would take us to the next path developmen ! A 65 year old can't find be youths representativ , only a young energetic new leader can be!
Finally a young and energetic leadership
Let's see if Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is his own man, much will depend on that.
yes with minimum 33 protocol cars