April 15, 2008	Tuesday	Rabi-us-Sani 8, 1429

KARACHI, April 14: According to a list of 200 personalities who may make it to the Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2008, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari figures 20th, ahead of singer Madonna and TV host Oprah Winfrey and even Nelson Mandela.

Nineteen-year-old Bilawal, who was made chairman of the PPP after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in December 2007, secured his listing with 8,218 votes.

Time magazine publishes every year a list of 100 world leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers who shape the world.

Other prominent people in the top 100 of the 207 finalists, are: Al Gore, Bruce Springstein, Dalai Lama, Bono, Bill Gates, George Clooney, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs , founder of the Facebook Mark Zukerberg, Will Smith, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, Democratic Party’s presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Republican Party’s presidential candidate John McCain, Noam Chomsky, Nicolas Sarkozy, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Sonia Gandhi, Nancy Pelosi, media baron Rupert Murdoch, Pope Benedict XVI, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, North Korea’s leader Kim Jon Il and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.