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Fatima fit to lead PPP, says Jemima
ISLAMABAD:
Jemima Khan, former wife of Pakistani politician Imran Khan, has
fired another salvo at the Bhutto clan, saying that the slain
Benazir Bhutto's niece Fatima is better qualified to run her party
than her son Bilawal.
The justification for the
selection of Benazir's son as chairman of the PPP was that only a
Bhutto could provide unity within the party, the British socialite
wrote in an article published in the Sunday Telegraph .
"If so, then why not 25-year-old
Fatima Bhutto, who is arguably more qualified for the job than her
teenage Facebooking cousin?"Jemima asked.
"If everything's in a name, Fatima
need not have changed hers in order to inherit. Brought up in
Pakistan, unlike Bilawal, she is an established writer and political
commentator. At least she has some work experience," wrote
Jemima."It helps, in a lookist society, that Fatima is also as
beautiful as her aunt and has similar tragic appeal:
orphaned, like most Bhuttos, as a result
of a political assassination. Fatima is also politicised and
outspoken. Too much so," she said.
"She repeatedly accused her aunt
of being complicit in the murder of her father and savagely opposed
Zardari. That ruled her out," wrote Jemima, whose last article on
the former premier was titled 'As prime minister, Bhutto did
little'.
Jemima said the real reason why
Fatima, the daughter of Bhutto's slain brother Murtaza, is her "favourite
Bhutto" is that she has the sense to realise that a few good
articles and the right surname don't
qualify her for leadership.
9 January 2008
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