Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
By 2017 Bilawal Bhutto had actively assumed command of PPP and there was little doubt that he would be the front runner for the Prime Minister’s slot in 2018. Bilawal is striving to reclaim his mother's mantle, the latest act in a Shakespearean saga of tragedy and power.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari likes riding and swimming very much. Much of his life was spent abroad. These days he engaged to understanding Pakistani politics which is part of the training in politics. Bilawal Bhutto learned politics and party affairs very closely with his father and the party leadership meeting.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the chairman of Pakistan people's party, tookg up the post after assassination of his mother and party leader Benazir Bhutto. Bilawal Bhutto was born on 21 September 1988. He is the eldest son of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former president Asif Ali Zardari. He is also grandson of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bilawal has two younger sisters, Bakhtawar and Asifa. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's first language is English; he also can speak Urdu and Arabic.
In 2007 he enrolled at Oxford University christ church college, where he studied modern history. A few months later, his mother Benazir Bhutto was killed and the Party leadership responsibility came over him. In December 2007 the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chose Benazir's son, Bilawal Bhutto, to lead the party, with support from her husband, Asif Ali Zardari as a co-chair. Amin Faheem will continue as Vice Chairman and be the PPP's candidate for Prime Minister.
Although Bilawal was only 19, Benazir had taken over the PPP when she was only 22 years old. While Bilawal finishes his degree at Oxford, Asif Ali Zardari would lead the party, but he will not be a candidate. Neither Zardari nor Bilawal had a college degree; therefore, neither was eligible to be a candidate for Parliament or Prime Minister. Law is not necessarily an obstacle to politics in Pakistan; however, the law requires that candidates have a university degree to run for office, and the Election Commission had disqualified the Sharif brothers (and other candidates) for being convicted/accused of crimes.
In 2010 Bilawal Bhutto Zardari received his graduation degree. On the death anniversary of his mother his speech emotionally in Larkana. It began his political career and was also his first political speech. In May 2011, Hakim Ali Zardari died; and the head of the tribe was the grandfather of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
In February 2017 Bilawal Bhutto Zardari silently supported his sisters – Bakhtawar and Aseefa – who stood up against the PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s decision to welcome a former political rival Irfanullah Marwat into the party fold. This was the first revolt of the scions of the Bhutto family against their father, who has been calling the shots in the party since the death of his wife, the PPP’s former chairperson Benazir Bhutto, in December 2007.
Pakistan Peoples Party's Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said the PPP wanted to establish a society of peace and tolerance in Pakistan where equal distribution of wealth could be ensured for well being of all the citizens. Addressing his maiden public meeting in Hyderabad at a ground along the Bypass road 19 October 2017, Bilawal criticized the PPP's political opponents and narrated the development works which the party's provincial government had carried out in Sindh.
He recalled the political struggles and sacrifices of his grandfather former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and his mother former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who both headed the PPP. He said Bhutto preferred martyrdom but he did not bow down his head before a military dictator while his mother despite threats to her life returned from exile to Pakistan and embarked upon a movement to restore democracy in the country.
An impassioned Bilawal Bhutto Zardari accused former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf of being responsible for his mother Benazir Bhutto's murder. Speaking at a rally to mark the tenth anniversary of Bhutto's murder in the southern Pakistani town of Garhi Khuda Bux on 28 December 2017, Bilawal led a crowd of thousands in a chant declaring Musharraf "a murderer". Musharraf denied any responsibility for the murder but said he could not rule out the involvement of rogue elements within the Pakistani military.
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