PPP Opts For “Dynasty-Based” Succession; Bilawal, Zardari To Lead Party

Benazir Bhutto’s widower, Asif Ali Zardari, has been named as her successor to the Pakistan People’s Party leadership; Zardari subsequently appointed their 19 year old son, Bilawal, as party chairperson. According to Bloomberg, Zardai and Bilawal will run the party as “co-chairpersons”, with BBC News...

Benazir Bhutto’s Son To Be Named New PPP Leader: TIME

TIME reports that Benazir Bhutto’s son will likely be named on Sunday as new Pakistan People’s Party leader: A senior official of Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) told TIME late Saturday that the slain former prime minister’s 19-year-old son, Bilawal, will likely...

In Other News, Rumour Has It Gordon Brown Likes To “Go Commando”

Sylvia @ Problem Chylde has compiled an exhaustive, must read collection of Bhutto-related links, including this unfortunate post from Moe @ Jezebel (yes, Jezebel *sigh*): So, was Musharraf, who’d just grudgingly conceded to share power with Bhutto and give up his army leadership position, behind the hit?...

Pakistan Update: Of Gunfire, Grassy Knolls and Bumped Heads

The word of the day is ‘conspiracy’. As in ‘conspiracy theories‘. Consider the waters thoroughly muddied: An elusive Taliban leader with links to Al Qaeda is emerging as the key suspect in Thursday’s assassination of Benazir Bhutto, killed as she campaigned for a third term as...

I’m Off!

Tomorrow at five in the morning, the airport shuttle is going to come around and pick me and my family up and drop us off at the airport.  From there we will be flying back to the land my wife and I once called home, sunny California where we will be staying until the 9th of January. I don’t think I...