There is certainly a dearth of leaders like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Dr Mubashar Hasan, Hafeez Pirzada, Hanif Ramay and Hayat Sherpao and their likes in the PPP today. When Bilawal was inducted into active politics a couple of months ago there was a flicker of hope that he might breathe a new life into its dying body. He, however, started with a whimper and not with a bang. Hitherto neither his body language nor his views suggest that he is capable of turning his party around. One doesn’t become a leader by reading speeches written by others and that too in Roman English. He is a novice in politics and would certainly need a lot of time to understand the nuts and bolts of this country’s politics. Somebody has rightly said there isn’t any short cut to experience. It comes naturally with the passage of time. It would have been much better had his father asked him to rub his shoulders with the party workers by first making him work as an ordinary party worker for at least ten years like what Sonia Gandhi did with her son Rahul Gandhi by making him go through the rough and tumble of politics for a considerable time before assigning him a responsible position inside the hierarchy of Congress.
Zardari would have to act urgently if he wants to arrest the rapid decline of his party’s popularity. It is in arrant disarray in KPK, Panjab and Balochistan. In Sind its government is tottering. Most of its leaders are on the run either in Dubai or London for fear of arrest because of their involvement in mega scams. Zardari himself cannot return to Karachi and is running his party through remote control from abroad like Altaf Hussain. He mistrusts Bilawal’s capability to run the party on his own steam because of his inexperience and that is why hesitates to give full powers to him to run the show. All this doesn’t portend well for the PPP which once used to be a national party but is now a shadow of its past with its influence limited in interior Sind only!What a downfall!
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