[Updated on September 7]
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, the 18-year-old daughter of Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari claims that her mother had drawn up a hand-written political plan for ushering in democracy to Pakistan just a few days before her assassination. The plan included the removal of Pervez Musharraf from presidency as a first step. Bakhtawar says she found the plan in her mother’s purse — and that her father is determined to fulfill it. The Indian Express has that story here.
And, from The Times, UK:
The eldest daughter of Benazir Bhutto, the assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, took her first steps on the political ladder last week with her appointment to a high-profile post in the party her mother once led.
Bakhtawar Bhutto, 17, has been made head of the Pakistan Peoples party’s (PPP) women’s wing. In her first television interview since her mother was killed last December, she pledged to carry on Benazir’s work.
In a pronounced American accent, Bakhtawar promised to play a prominent role in the campaign for women’s equality and said that she had not ruled out a career in politics.
“I definitely want to help people in Pakistan. I want to continue my mom’s mission in any way I can, whether it’s politics or something else - I haven’t decided yet,” she said.
[Photo: Bakhtawar Bhutto and her sister Asifa pray at their mother Benazir’s grave. The Times]
September 9, 2008 at 3:20
well she is a very brilliant and inteligent girl like her great mother