DUBAI, Jan 1: The son of assassinated PPP leader Benazir Bhutto arrived on Tuesday, two days after he succeeded her as head of her political party.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, a 19-year-old student at Oxford University, travelled to Dubai along with his two sisters on a commercial flight, witnesses said.

A dozen supporters waited in the upmarket Dubai neighbourhood as the newly-appointed leader of the Pakistan People’s Party was driven home without making any statements to waiting reporters.

It is not yet clear how long the young PPP leader will spend in the United Arab Emirates.

Earlier, Bilawal his sisters Ms Bakhtawar and Aseefa had flown to Karachi from the family’s ancestral home in Naudero.

Meanwhile, Oxford University in London is assessing ways of providing security for the newly-appointed PPP chairman, who is a first year student at Christ Church College, says a report in ‘The Telegraph’.

A university spokesman told the paper that they will review their security arrangements. “We take the security of all our students, including high profile students, extremely seriously,” he added.

The spokesman said: “We cannot comment on individual students even if they are high profile.”

According to the paper, the university is expected to take advice from the intelligence services and Thames Valley police as it prepares to welcome the teenager back to Oxford.—Agencies