The world watched in horror when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated followed by the days of rioting that have turned Pakistan into a state of chaos. The world was not less stunned when Bhutto's party Pakistan People's Party scrambling in confusion, it seems, to look for a successor and a new leader, announced Benazir's son Bilawal as joint leader of the party.
A young man of only 19 (to be terminologically correct, still a teenager), who has just started his college studies, he has been thrust into the front line of Pakistan, and world, politics. It seems almost unbelievable.
However, I just saw a brief interview of him on the television. He seems remarkably mature and collected for a person of his age. It's just the beginning. He will be groomed by those more experienced and naturally by the passage of time. He already has put a “face” on his party. And it is a new and fresh face. His English is perfect, and that may be a great advantage also in dealing with other world leaders.
Perhaps this is a good thing for Pakistan after all. Someone with a new vision, to give the country a fresh direction. Will he prevail or will he end up as another sacrifice thrown into the ruthless and the power-hungry world of uncertain and dangerous politics that is engulfing Pakistan?
For Bilawal, it seems he recognises his destiny. He is a child of a dynastic family. Politics, as he say, is in his blood. Certainly he is no ordinary teeanager.
A young man of only 19 (to be terminologically correct, still a teenager), who has just started his college studies, he has been thrust into the front line of Pakistan, and world, politics. It seems almost unbelievable.
However, I just saw a brief interview of him on the television. He seems remarkably mature and collected for a person of his age. It's just the beginning. He will be groomed by those more experienced and naturally by the passage of time. He already has put a “face” on his party. And it is a new and fresh face. His English is perfect, and that may be a great advantage also in dealing with other world leaders.
Perhaps this is a good thing for Pakistan after all. Someone with a new vision, to give the country a fresh direction. Will he prevail or will he end up as another sacrifice thrown into the ruthless and the power-hungry world of uncertain and dangerous politics that is engulfing Pakistan?
For Bilawal, it seems he recognises his destiny. He is a child of a dynastic family. Politics, as he say, is in his blood. Certainly he is no ordinary teeanager.
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