[GEO.TV] As the country inches towards the general elections, Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal
BabyBhutto 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...
on Thursday underscored the need for new leadership and new politics, saying that the "old politicians will have to be sent home".
Addressing a workers' convention in Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
, Bilawal said that other parties are into old politics but there should be a "doctrine and manifesto" that the PPP possesses.
He said that new leadership and new politics are needed to come out of the crises, hitting out at the Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N, which has presented its supremo, Nawaz Sharif
...served , as a possible candidate for the prime ministership.
Nawaz is in Pakistain after ending a four-year self-imposed exile in October, but his participation in the elections remains in doubt due to legal issues — as he had been disqualified from holding public office.
"Such a leadership which is not stuck in the past, which thinks about the future, doesn't get caught up in politics and division," Bilawal said.
He further stated that people's problems won't be resolved if the "personal enmities are to continue like this". "Pakistain won't progress unless the vote is not given respect".