From Jinnah to Zardari

Asif Ali Zardari is a one-timer. He knows that and completely believes in the fact that he is hardly to marry another woman who is destined to be at the climax of the politics and then if that happens somehow, it is also highly unlikelty that she would be brutally assassinated and then it is very unlikely that Zardari would inherit a party on an unverified will and then get a NRO and become president of Pakistan.

Zardari is here for only one time and he wants to do it all during his first and last chance to head the Pakistani state. Had he shown his interest in becoming the head of state before 18th February, no one would have, in his or her right senses voted PPP into the position of power, as it enjoys now in the assemblies.

Zardari is not bigger than his hung father-in-law Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his slain wife Benazir Bhutto. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto would have happily agreed to go for the gallows instead of marrying his daughter to Zardari, and that still remains an incomprehensible thing as why Benazir Bhutto selected Asif Zardari as her life partner, though she never included him in the party decision during the eight years of struggle agains the dictator Musharraf. Zardari wasn’t present at the occasion of charter of democracy and he didn’t hold any party office or he never was included in the policy devising session of PPP. How is it possible that Benazir Bhutto would have appointed Zardari as her successor?

That is preposterous and Naheed Khan the lifelong companion of Benazir Bhutto knows that. That is why she and her husband have been sidelined. The current coterie of Asif Ali Zardari are the non-elected, hand-picked people of Zardari, who were unknown during Benazir era. Dr. Asim, Dr. Soomro, Sherry Rehman, Rehman Malik, and host of others are unknown to even veteran PPP workers.

Benazir Bhutto’s sould would be appalled by watching her husband hijacking the party she took care of much. The way Zardari is following the footprints of Musharraf must have made Benazir Bhutto turn in her grave. And Jinnah? Well he is turning in his grave violently for a long time.