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India-Pakistan
Baby Bhutto leaves Pakistan, not to lead PPP election campaign: officials
2013-03-27
[Dawn] Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari
...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet...
will not be leading the party's election campaign as party officials confirmed his departure for Dubai on Tuesday, days before the party launches its official campaign on April 4.

Speaking to Dawn.com, PPP leader Sharmila Farooqi confirmed that Bilawal had departed for Dubai. She also confirmed that the young Bhutto would not be 'physically' taking part in the party's election campaign; however, she cited "security concerns" as the reason behind the decision.

The news comes as the Press Trust of India reported that the PPP chairman had left after an argument with his father, President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
.

Hasham Riaz, Bilawal's chief of staff, while speaking to Dawn.com also confirmed that Bilawal had left for Dubai. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
he dismissed reports of a rift between the father and son as "rumors".

According to the report by the Press Trust of India, the PPP chairman had a quarrel with President Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur over the party's stance on several importance issues including militancy, sectarianism and the awarding of party tickets for the upcoming general elections.
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