Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD — Slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto’s party was due Saturday to announce the name of its candidate for prime minister, as a nominee of President Pervez Musharraf’s allies quit the race.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Bhutto’s 19-year-old son and successor as chairman of her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), will announce the name, party spokesman […]

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In Pakistan, Democracy has only been seen as a catch word. During the sixty or so years of its independence, Pakistan has undergone several extended military rules and the few so-called ‘democracic rules’ that were there were used by the civilian masters only to enrich themselves or to grab more power. But even so, every […]

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By Husain Haqqani
TOO MUCH commentary on Pakistan has focused on the flaws and feudal nature of its politics. Given the choice between flawed politicians and a military-intelligence establishment that has fostered terrorism for years, the international community - including the United States - must side with Pakistan’s politicians. Politics can change.

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Source: The Guardian
Fatima Bhutto is Benazir’s niece. The resemblance is striking: the long nose, the headstrong personality, the burning rage about a father’s violent death. Declan Walsh meets the woman who would have been the heir to Benazir’s throne - if it weren’t for the family feud that came between them.

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Source: BBC News
Players on the world political stage are rarely 19-year-olds keen to continue their studies uninterrupted. What are Bilawal Bhutto’s chances of doing just that?
Until last month, Bilawal was just another fresher finding his way around Christ Church College in Oxford, forging new friendships and sampling the night life.

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Source: Times Online
Yesterday, the day on which Benazir Bhutto expected to be elected back into power in Pakistan, her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that he intended to follow her into politics, that he would lead her party into elections in five weeks’ time, but that he wanted privacy for three years while he studied […]

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Source: AFP
LARKANA, Pakistan (AFP) — After years of discord in Pakistan’s top political dynasty, Benazir Bhutto’s sister-in-law has stoked up the family feud by saying she wants the opposition leader’s son to join her rival party.
Ghinwa Bhutto has been estranged from the former premier since her husband, Benazir’s younger brother Murtaza, was gunned down amid […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Camilla Hall
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who took over as chairman of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party after his mother, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated last month, said his country may fragment unless President Pervez Musharraf backs free elections.

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Source: Evening Standard
“Free alcohol, hangovers, bisexual friends and a girl called Boozie Suzie”
His antics at Oxford University would shock people in Pakistan awaiting Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s return to take over the political dream shaped by his murdered mother Benazir.
The 19-year-old’s preparation for his role in one of the world’s strictest Muslim states has certainly been […]

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Source: Telegraph
By Jemima Khan
Death duties are being reformed in this country and the upper limit extended. They don’t come more onerous than those left to Bilawal Bhutto, né Zardari. Many Oxford undergraduates consider a career in politics; few are handed a political party, a new name and the statistical probability that you’re not going to […]

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Source: The Vancouver Sun
By Miro Cernetig
Here in Medialand we love to fall for the iconic figure, the convenient allegory, a Western-style protagonist to help explain complex events in distant lands. Hence the lovefest, nay, near deification, surrounding Benazir Bhutto.

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Source: Telegraph
A 19-year-old who has just seen his mother killed in a suicide bomb attack, a disgraced former prime minister who has been banned from holding public office for his involvement in corruption, and a dictator who has been obliged to remove his military uniform only with extreme reluctance so that he can at least […]

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Source: The Sun
A RADICAL Pakistani mullah last night issued a chilling warning to Benazir Bhutto’s son Bilawal Zardari, insisting: “He’s a target now.”
Taliban fanatic Maulana Mohavya Irshad – who admits he is happy to become a suicide bomber – said last night: “Bilawal has become the target for those who killed Benazir Bhutto.

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Source: NPR
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the 19-year-old son of the late Benazir Bhutto, has inherited the reins of her Pakistan Peoples Party.
News International editor Kamal Siddiqi reports from Karachi that the Oxford student is unlikely to be the party’s replacement candidate. While Bilawal finishes his studies, his father, Asif Ali Zardari, will act as co-chairman. And […]

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Source: Globe and Mail
By SAEED SHAH
Mirpur Bhutto, Pakistan — The head of the Bhutto tribe, a founding member of the Pakistan Peoples Party, has rejected the appointment of Benazir Bhutto’s husband and son to lead the group and predicted that it will split the party.
Mumtaz Bhutto’s comments threaten to reopen the deep fissures in the […]

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Source: Silence (blog)
When PPP started its press conference, almost everybody was sure to what will be the decisions. The enough of speculation was already around about the chairmanship of Bilawal Zardari, though no body knew about the change of surname from Zardari to Bhutto Zardari. Not only this but decision about participation of election was […]

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Source: Telegraph
By Isambard Wilkinson
After spending eight years in jail on corruption and drug-smuggling charges, Asif Ali Zardari, 51, now heads a political party that America and Britain wants to stabilise nuclear-armed, volatile Pakistan.
Benazir Bhutto’s son given key role in party
The flamboyantly moustachioed polo aficionado has many attributes

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Source: BBC News
As Bilawal Bhutto Zardawi made his first public appearance before the world, his father announced the boy would from now on be known by his mother’s name - Bhutto.
Three days after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Bilawal Bhutto finds himself inheriting not just one of the most celebrated names in politics, but a history steeped […]

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Source: The Times of India
LARKANA: Bilawal in his first ever press conference as the Chairman of the party thanked the CEC members and said that he remained committed to the federation of Pakistan.
“Democracy is best revenge,” Bilawal said and added that the PPP would work with a “renewed vigour”.

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