PPP divided over Benazir’s will
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ISLAMABAD: At a time when news of differences between Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Chairman Bilawal Bhutto are circulating in the media, the party faces another controversy as the central leadership seems divided over Benazir Bhutto’s will.
Qamar Zaman Kaira, the Central Secretary Information of the PPP claims that Benazir had left two different wills in the name of her husband Asif Ali Zardari.
"The first will was regarding the party, and for being a matter of public interest Asif Zardari made it public," Kaira said while talking to DawnNews.
The PPP spokesman divulged that Asif Zardari holds another will of Benazir's which regards their family matters.
Kaira disclosed that in the second will the late premier named Asif Zardari as her successor, but he instead named Bilawal for the position.
"Benazir's family will had nothing to do with the PPP," he said.
He also dispelled the impression of differences between Zardari and Bilawal, although he did say that difference of opinion does exist.
Kaira claimed that news of differences are part of conspiracy against the party.
"Conspiracies have also been hatched against the PPP founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the marriage of Benazir and Zardari," he said.
On the other hand, PPP leader and former MNA Sherry Rehman has shrugged the statement aside, saying that Benazir had made only one will.
Rehman said that she saw Benazir’s will after her assassination in 2007 and was adamant that the late prime minister only had one.
“Benazir Bhutto had only one will which I saw myself,” DawnNews quoted her as saying.
Benazir was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007. She was killed after addressing an election campaign rally in the city.
Days after the assassination, the PPP leadership had announced that Benazir had designated her son Bilawal as chairperson of the party while her husband Asif Ali Zardari was named co-chairperson.
Zardari later took leadership of the party while Bilawal proceeded to finish his studies at Oxford.
The PPP co-chairperson later was elected Pakistan president in 2008 and served till 2013 in that position.
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Jan 21, 2015 10:37pm
.....or none ?
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Jan 21, 2015 10:40pm
Is the PPP a personal institution of the Bhuttos that Benazir could decide the succession? I should think that the leader should be selected in a transparent manner by the party workers.
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Jan 21, 2015 10:43pm
It is my assumption that will mainly describe how to handle the estate problems ant not the
political appointments. These political appointments are done by the members of the party.
I can,t believe BB was not aware of this fact. Please stop fooling the Pakistani people'
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Jan 21, 2015 10:49pm
It doesn't matter whether there was only one will or two. PPP is history now, at least in Punjab, and their government in Sindh is doing its best to lose in Sindh next time as well.
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Jan 21, 2015 10:49pm
They are both wrong.....only Mr. Zardari knows the truth.
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Jan 21, 2015 10:54pm
In most case family writes will to give all their personal wealth to their loved one. "PPP" party was not Benazir's personal property, PPP party belong to all PPP party members, party suppose to decide by election that who will next chair person, therefore this will is not valid document. There are more qualified & honest people in PPP who should be take over the party leadership.
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Jan 21, 2015 10:55pm
A stain on the name of politics: PPP.
At least they are not hiding anything; they know they are running a family estate and they say so; that is why the appointment of "successors" after the death of the monarch.
Kick these royal families out of Pakistani politics........
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Jan 21, 2015 10:57pm
Party Chairman's appointment in a Will? What a party--Waah Jee Waah!!
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Jan 21, 2015 11:05pm
There might have been one or two, but the real question is to ask whether those were plagiarized by Zardari in favor of his family ownership of PPP? I think this might solve the fiasco!
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Jan 21, 2015 11:19pm
Did anyone ever verify if the will was gnuine and written in BB owwn handwriting. PPP is a democratic party or dictatorship of one family.
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Jan 21, 2015 11:50pm
Did Benazir make a will at all? If so does it mean PPP was her left over property?
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Jan 21, 2015 11:50pm
@optimist it is a dictatorship of one family.
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Jan 21, 2015 11:53pm
@rathorew
All major parties are owned by a family or individual; that's why democracy is not meant for 3rd world.
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Jan 21, 2015 11:54pm
where there is a will, there is another will.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:00am
So what is the point whether she made 1 will or 2 wills what difference does that make? Why can't the part elect either her son or her husband? And I am sick of Pakistani politicians using this word " conspiracy" or " saazish" who hatches these conspiracies and why does any part allow this to happen? Height of immaturity by the same old guard. What a joke
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Jan 22, 2015 12:14am
I have suspected from day-one that this "will" is a forgery. PPP must answer how did this Oxford graduate misspell her father's name. ZA Bhutto always spelled Zulfiqar with a Q not a K, the "will" didn't.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:17am
Benazir's Will had 15 pages. We have seen only a single page and that to is addressed to "Pakistan People's Party". Where are the other 14 pages?
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Jan 22, 2015 12:21am
Kair means coward who cannot dare to talk his mind straight. Otherwise, he should have suggested Media to go and get clarifications from Bilawal, instead from him, the well-known "His Master's Voice" !
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Jan 22, 2015 12:25am
As a matter of fact both these PPP stalwarts are talking about one or two "fake" Wills engineered by Zardari. It is insult to a common man that how could BB leave a will in hands of Zardari? She was a highly educated & sharp lady, had she left a Will it would have been sealed and kept with her Lawyers in the UK. Please stop this Drama as it has no audience any more.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:32am
@Parvez : Bilawal may know the truth as well, if Benazir shared the Will with Bilawal.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:35am
I am sure Benazir left her will to her beloved husband Zardari.
Sounds like a true story!
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Jan 22, 2015 12:36am
And this is "Pakistan Peoples Party" wakeup my nation!!!!!!!
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Jan 22, 2015 12:45am
Where there is 'WILL' , there is a 'WAY' ;)
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Jan 22, 2015 12:51am
@Riaz Not ALL, not PTI, not JI and to some extent not ANP.
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Jan 22, 2015 12:53am
Dynastic politics. It's the best of both worlds. They rule over poor people like kings, yet unlike overthrown kingdoms they come back again and again in the name of democracy. Pakistani style monarchy zindabad.
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Jan 22, 2015 01:03am
Look again there should be third one announcing Pakistan ownership to Mr.Zardari
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Jan 22, 2015 01:27am
First will or the second will, was it really written and signed by Benazir Bhutto. Also why both will are in the possession of Mr. Zardari and why not a Lawyer has those.
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Jan 22, 2015 01:36am
who cares- PPP has at best become a regional party and soon it would go the way of the Dinosaur-
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Jan 22, 2015 01:54am
they all liars-they speak for their own benefits
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Jan 22, 2015 02:01am
Does n't matter how you slice it - Mohtarma , 'Shaheed' Benazir Bhutto wanted to keep leadership of PPP in the immediate family , her will true or fake , does not matter, Zardari implemented it. Kara & Sherry Rehman are creating a controversy , a fodder for endless TV talk shows.
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Jan 22, 2015 02:13am
The irony of Pakistan politics is such that a person who has been with the party for so many years is OK with the fact that he has no chance of making it to the Prime seat - ever, since the successors are defined in will of a person, not by merit.
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Jan 22, 2015 02:40am
According to the will, Asif Ali Zardari would only hold a transitory position (6 months or so) as head of the party. This was her wish to honor Asif because he suffered long jail-term and remained steadfast. After that PPP was supposed to have chosen its head on merit basis, and not heredity basis. Sorry BB, your wishes have not been followed accurately.
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Jan 22, 2015 03:08am
I'm sure Mr. Zardari could produce 3rd will which would say BB had 2 wills. :)
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Jan 22, 2015 03:20am
Who cares how many wills she left. We have more serious problems to worry about in our country
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Jan 22, 2015 04:11am
0+0+0+0=0
Doesn't one two or more wills
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Jan 22, 2015 04:14am
All those claiming that Benazir´s will was engineered must read Sohail Warraich´s book "Qatil Kon". I can say that with more than 100% surety that Sohail Warraich is a better intellectual than these so-called intellectuals who just cannot hide their baseless hatred against PPP.
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Jan 22, 2015 04:18am
Fiefdom???
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Jan 22, 2015 04:46am
I have no choice but to be with PPP as it is the only national political party inclined towards left or at least center left. But feeling shame on this kind of news. All political parties in Pakistan are personal estates but we were expecting PPP a bit better than the others. Unfortunately only JI is not a personal property that makes me even more ashamed.
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Jan 22, 2015 04:57am
There is NO will at all, if there is any, it should be for her personal property and handling of kids etc.
PPP is NOT a personal property of BB, so why a will?
ECP is handicapped, otherwise, there must have been elections in the party, in fact all parties, independently and fairly, so that these crooks (Zardari and Sharifs, Maulana) should have gone from Pakistan's political scenario.
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Jan 22, 2015 04:59am
Zardari created a fake will!
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Jan 22, 2015 05:04am
One or two wills, who gives a hoot.
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Jan 22, 2015 05:21am
@rathorew
Agree.
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Jan 22, 2015 05:27am
The PPP elite are lot of posers and publicity seekers. That does not get the work of a government done in supplying what people need. The are more interested in satisfying their egos than working for the public good. Benazir Bhutto sincerely believed in uplifting the people. The Zardaris see themselves as nobility.
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Jan 22, 2015 07:16am
A will to decide who leads the Nation? Is this serious?
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Jan 22, 2015 07:24am
@rathorew: You are absolutely right. How can there be two wills? The will pertaining to 70 Clifton and her financial matters should be valid, the other pertaining to the party should be invalid since that is not her fathers personal property. Same is true for PML(N), it does not belong to Nawaz Sharif or Shahbaz Sharif's children.
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Jan 22, 2015 08:00am
Will or no will. It has nothing to do with politics. PPP is a family limited company and Kaira and co are all cronies of Goldman (Zardari) PPP may not be able to win over in Sind in coming elections. Now after PTI it is third largest party. It may further reduced to fourth position after MQM. ZAB's soul cant not rest in peace when Zardari is running his revolutionary party.
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Jan 22, 2015 08:42am
@Parvez but he will NEVER EVER tell the truth.
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Jan 22, 2015 08:50am
@zainab Are you saying the current ANP leader is not Wali Khan's real son? Please clarify.
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Jan 22, 2015 08:52am
@Irshad Khan Canada For your information Asif Zardari has a law degree too.
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Jan 22, 2015 09:13am
If PPP is Benazir's Personal Property, the abbrev. should be BPP, not PPP!
If PPP it is, then it has to be either Papa's Personal Property OR Pappu's Personal Property.
The latter is not only understandable but thanks to the pervailing jihalat among masses and party workers, it has also seen light of the day!
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Jan 22, 2015 10:05am
My advise to Mr. Asif Ali Zardari should keep the post of chairman ppp in the name of founder Shaheed Z A Bhutto,Begum Nusrat Bhuttoand Shaheed Benazir Bhuttowith honor for all the time ,and he take the party run with the post of president and arrange an election in the party at all levels for future politics in the country with new direction and action, the discussion of will of BIBI is not the question, Only Bhuttoism can give life to PPP no Idea,No position,no figure or program.slogan is forever "Bhuttoism"
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Jan 22, 2015 07:18pm
So this is your democratic party? Where the leader leaves succession to a family member on a will? Great going.
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Jan 22, 2015 07:20pm
So this is Pakistan People's Party? Where is the people's say in who their leader is?
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Jan 22, 2015 10:55pm
And I thought it was Pakistan PEOPLE'S party. Don't the PEOPLE get to decide who should be leading this so called PEOPLE's party than Benazir's "will"?
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