Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has asked the PPP workers to start preparing for 2018 polls, and to get geared up to reclaim its lost glory.
If the PPP’s “hue and cry” campaign against the lifting of the PML (N)’s ban on the ex-President Gen Peervez Musharaf’s going abroad is the party’s first step towards a ‘re-emergence’ plan, it is sadly self-defeating, and is designed more to expose the PPP’s weaknesses than to provide it any strength.
We all know that when General Pervez Musharraf had made his appearance on the political horizon of the country in October 1999, the PPP’s chairperson Benazir Bhutto had been among those who had welcomed his arrival to end the era of Mian’s “fascistic” rule.
We also know that the notorious NRO had been decided between the General and BB herself. It goes without saying that in the last eight years the country, for better or for worse, has been run by the parties that had championed the cause of democracy by signing a charter a decade back.
The decline and fall of the PPP therefore can’t be attributed to General Pervez Musharraf any way. Bilawal should try to find the villain in his own family. He will not be requiring the skills of Sherlock Holmes, nor wisdom of Aristotle to learn who single-handedly has transformed the party of his mother and her father into a habitab of ghosts.
