PPP's special one*
It is about dynasty, and it's the wrong game plan. 19 years old, and chairman of the PPP; no experience, no charisma and decades before he would be in effective leadership of his party.
To be the president of Pakistan is something to die for. That, is absurdly true. It is a disservice to the people of the country that their future must be put to ransom by the Bhutto family. As it is, Pakistan is run on a warlord system, whatever they chose to call it. If its people let their destiny ride on the fortune of some warlord, then they deserve the leaders they get. Having a country's future hijacked in order to perpetuate a dynasty, is unacceptable and is a legitimate concern of the world community, and its people must wake up to their reality.
Modernising Pakistan is next to impossible. Its heart is still ruled by Islamic clerics with 14 centuries old mindsets. In order for authority to be established, ruling the country needs strength first: social equity becomes a distant, warped objective. The concept of democracy is anathemic.
That is why if the Bhutto's have any sense of the larger picture, trumpeting the continuance of blood lineage should sound arcane and inconsonant to them. The larger good should be to free Pakistan of its medieval shakles. This takes courage, sacrifice and a strict volitional choice of what one's place in history should be. In life, Benazir's struggles had some meaning. In the end her death meant nothing.
*Bilawal means "without equal" in urdu.
It is about dynasty, and it's the wrong game plan. 19 years old, and chairman of the PPP; no experience, no charisma and decades before he would be in effective leadership of his party.
To be the president of Pakistan is something to die for. That, is absurdly true. It is a disservice to the people of the country that their future must be put to ransom by the Bhutto family. As it is, Pakistan is run on a warlord system, whatever they chose to call it. If its people let their destiny ride on the fortune of some warlord, then they deserve the leaders they get. Having a country's future hijacked in order to perpetuate a dynasty, is unacceptable and is a legitimate concern of the world community, and its people must wake up to their reality.
Modernising Pakistan is next to impossible. Its heart is still ruled by Islamic clerics with 14 centuries old mindsets. In order for authority to be established, ruling the country needs strength first: social equity becomes a distant, warped objective. The concept of democracy is anathemic.
That is why if the Bhutto's have any sense of the larger picture, trumpeting the continuance of blood lineage should sound arcane and inconsonant to them. The larger good should be to free Pakistan of its medieval shakles. This takes courage, sacrifice and a strict volitional choice of what one's place in history should be. In life, Benazir's struggles had some meaning. In the end her death meant nothing.
*Bilawal means "without equal" in urdu.
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