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| Bilawal returns to country to lead party campaign |
| 2013-04-02 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Pakistain People's Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto returned to the country on Monday to start the party's election campaign on April 4. PPP sources revealed to Daily Times that despite severe security threat and reservations on the way party's affairs are being run, PPP chairman decided to return to Pakistain to start the party's election campaign on April 4, but it was still not clear whether he would lead the party campaign till the elections in prevailing circumstances or not. The sources said that the party had instructed all its district level organizations to arrange meetings in their respective offices to observe the 34th death anniversary of founder-chairman of PPP and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent... . It must be noted that there are different points of view among PPP leaders regarding the departure of their party's chairman from Pakistain before the start of election campaign, but they all agreed that he would return before April 4. One section of the PPP says that Bilawal left the country due to the security concerns, but few senior party leaders say that Bilawal was unhappy regarding the running of party's affairs, as he believed that the party's ideology was being compromised by promoting different individuals whose loyalty is divided. On the other hand, one PPP leader claimed that isolation of Bilawal from the upcoming election campaign was part of the strategy because party leadership believed that they should not ruin a PPP asset by using Bilawal in the upcoming election campaign, especially when the performance of the PPP was too poor. Likewise, he said that few senior PPP leaders told the part leadership that it was better that PPP chairman be spared from the upcoming election campaign and those party leaders who ran the government affairs for the last five years should lead the election campaign. Another annoyed PPP leader said that it was better that party should ask Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. , Asim Hussain, Hafeez Sheikh, Farooq H Naek, etc, for campaigning in the elections because they had occupied important executive portfolios during the last five years and were responsible for bad governance. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... it has been learnt that severe mismanagement has been witnessed in Punjab in resolving the dispute among party workers, which erupted due to the decisions regarding the issuance of party tickets to the candidates. The sources said that no regular meeting of the PPP Punjab parliamentary board was being held to address these issues. Likewise, with general elections around the corner, the Supreme Court has taken up cases against big shots of the Pakistain People's Party who are in charge of party campaign across the country. The cases to be taken up include former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf's contempt and rental power projects scam, alleged involvement of Amin Fahim in NICL scam, intra-court appeal of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani against his conviction and contempt proceedings against Rehman Malik that may be a setback for the PPP with the elections just over a month away. |
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