President will attend UK ceremony, says Wajid; Pak government to foot bill
LONDON: Bilawal Zardari will formally launch his political career as chairman of PPP on August 7 when President Asif Ali Zardari and his son will address a major rally of British Pakistanis in Birmingham to formally launch the young Zardari’s active political career.
The president’s visit to the UK and 21-year-old Bilawal’s anointation comes at a critical stage when the party stands divided in the UK. Now a genuine graduate from famous Oxford University, where his martyred mother and maternal uncles also studied, Bilawal Bhutto, who is more interested in Facebook and hip-hop music than Pakistani politics, is being coached about Pakistani politics.
He will have to wait till he reaches the age of 25 to contest election but after taking over the party as the full-fledged chairman, without having to share the portfolio with his father president, he will become the most powerful young politician Pakistan has ever seen. ...