In Pakistan it’s easy to befool people with hollow slogans and concave promises.
Bilawal’s transition stage has been a circus, to say the least, with a colorful and eclectic crowd of PPP’s jialas, varying ideological hues and levels of experience ascending to the top of two containers trying to copy his grandfather while addressing the nation with speech written by some sick minded jiala.
I feel pity for myself and my nation when I have a look on the politicians who want to rule this country while keeping their children and assets abroad. It’s highly a disappointment, which frustrates all who think about the nation.
How the man who spent years abroad studying and wandering and now settled in Dubai can understand the core problems of the country. Just simply standing at the top of the containers and shouting aloud against the government can’t raise his image as a politician of high competence. While copying his grandfather (Z A Bhutto) he must remember his education standard, his caliber, his working experience and the guidelines he got from a person like Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan.
Bilawal requires a lot of training in every field: how to talk, walk, address and behave. He has to change. His aides who say that politics runs in his blood are trying to befool him because PPP is their survival.
Khurshid Shah, his main guide is considered a corrupt, illiterate and ill mannered personality who has zero political policy experience.
Yousaf Raza Ghillani, who has served as Prime Minister was unable to hold the office successfully. Instead of being beneficial to the general public, his conduct remained beneficial to the party chief as well to his family members, who all became filthy rich during his short tenure of two and a half years.
Raja Parvez Ashraf who spent a considerable amount of time as Minister for Power is still facing the NAB for corruption charges against him regarding his misdoing with IPPs.
There is no perfect prescription for assembling a core cabinet of the party, although most members or so called leaders though worked in the Benazir and Zardari governments but have no personal vision except following the instructions of the party chiefs. Nor is there any particular order in which cabinet members are supposed to be named, although here, again, Bilawal has sought to nail down top so called leadership and should gather the young and highly educated stuff around, may be the sons or family members of the old party workers. The senior Zardari, if guides, suggests with the vision to serve the country, can do wonders having strong hold on the party workers and leaders.
If there is any ideological consistency it is in the minds of jialas of the party. Both are hard-liners, as is true of the hard-right Farhat Ullah Babar, whom Zardari appointed as his chief strategist and chief of staff. As the chief of staff, seems more of a consensus pick, since his main job over the last few years, as the aide of co-chairman of the party, has been to keep as many jialas as happy as possible.
Kaira, who ran Zardari’s information desk, is acknowledged by experts to be one of the best-run in recent history, calls Zardari’s wide-open approach to hiring “refreshing” and its organization “peculiar.” He has no better idea than the rest of lot about what senior Zardari is planning. After all, Mr. Zardari has been tinkering with his stances on Nawaz, so-called enhanced interrogation and swiss accounts.
But Zardari seems worried that Bilawal, like Benazir Bhutto, might be trotting out his principles, while saying, “If you don’t like them, well, stay away.”
“We had a governing agenda,” he said. “The Nawaz folks don’t, and so their personnel are going to have the country damaged in political system which can lead the third force to intervene. It can be done, but it multiplies the degree of difficulty.”
Bilawal moved swiftly in November last year to diversify his team and try to raise lingering rifts between PPP and PML-N reaching out to government of Nawaz Shareef , some of his old team members opposed him during the campaign, while challenging Nawaz Shareef for 27th December 2016.
But none of these choices suggest a president-elect who is reaching beyond reliably conservative precincts to fill his administration.
Bilawal has shown concerned both with the attention that Manzoor Wattoo had been a failure in Punjab rather has damaged his party’s interest in the province as well jialas are annoyed with his presence. He earnestly needs some other person to hold the office in Punjab. In Sind, change of Qaim Ali Shah to Murad Ali Shah will show good and positive results. But, they have to face two more political parties there, MQM and PTI.
Bilawal who was spending stress-free, happy and relaxed days before practically joining the politics, now needs a breathless months training to become a seasoned politician, head a political party and get ready for the next elections of 2018. His party is totally torn off in the four provinces of the country, only Sind has saved them. He must acknowledge the wounds left by bruising failure of his political party during the last elections.
