Last Updated: March 13, 2024, 00:56 IST
Asif Ali Zardari with daughter Aseefa Bhutto. File picture/PPP
Aseefa Bhutto is Asif Ali Zardari’s daughter from his marriage with former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007. The 31-year-old has labored on polio eradication, campaigned for her brother Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and is usually seen alongside her father
Pakistan’s new President Asif Ali Zardari deciding to identify his daughter, Aseefa Bhutto, the First Lady of the nation, is a really calculated transfer, sources instructed CNN-News18 on Tuesday.
Aseefa is Zardari’s daughter from his marriage with former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007. The 31-year-old has labored on polio eradication, campaigned for her brother Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and is usually seen alongside her father.
Zardari and Bilawal are usually not on nice phrases, mentioned sources. They added that Bilawal thinks he’s the one Bhutto however Zardari tells him to study the fundamentals of politics first, not change into prime minister or president on the first go.
The second motive, they mentioned, is that he’s extra affectionate in the direction of his daughters. He desires Aseefa to take the lead within the subsequent few years and change into a “second Benazir”, mentioned the sources.
According to sources, Maryam Nawaz Sharif from the Pakistan Muslim League (N) is now in an official place, having change into the chief minister of the Punjab province, and every time elections occur subsequent, Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) may have a reputable feminine face in Aseefa to counter her and even tackle Bilawal in case he “goes out of control”.
This shouldn’t be the one time a Pakistan president has named his daughter the First Lady. Ayub Khan did the identical as his spouse was fairly aged on the time and never nicely versed with diplomatic protocols. Pakistan has a provision to identify the president’s daughter as Khatoon-e-Awwal.
PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was on Sunday sworn in because the 14th president of Pakistan, taking up as the pinnacle of the state for a historic second time.
According to sources, because the outcomes of the Pakistan elections this time have been extraordinarily fragmented, Zardari is apprehensive about his occasion’s future and doesn’t need to be utterly depending on Bilawal or enable him to have entry to a free stream of funds.
