It doesn’t lie in the mouth of either Bilawal or his partymen to cry themselves hoarse over Panama leaks. Isn’t it a fact that Zardari and his henchmen have also a lot to live down? Can a pot call the kettle black?
Undoubtedly the PPP has a political future provided young Bilawal gets rid of all the faces who were in the saddle along with his father between 2008 and 2013 and if he enters the political arena with brand new team untainted with stories of corruption. Hitherto there are no signs, whatever, that Zardari is going to loosen his grip on power within the PPP.
A lot of time has already been wasted by the PPP leadership to hold intra party elections for the fear that if fair elections were held key positions in the party cadres might fall into the lap of those ideological workers, who don’t see eye to eye with Zardari’s brand of politics, thus creating embarrassment for it. If the PPP lands in the next polls with the existing leadership it will be writing its own political obituary. Make no mistake about it. Most of the political parties suffer from this unknown fear and malaise. Their leadership believe in nominations from above .The modus operandi which most of the parties adopt during intra party election is such that the hand-picked party men are signaled from the top to vote for their blue eyed boys who are nominated from above for the important positions in the provincial to district cadres of the party. Dissent is not tolerated .Leaders of all the political parties enjoy dictatorial powers under the relevant law in this respect. The JI is, perhaps, the only party which has a democratic electoral system for holding party elections and that is the precise reason why it is immuned from the culture of dynastic politics.
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