In
a rare and impressive show, the ruling party in Sindh staged a rally in
Karachi to pay homage to party workers, activists, and supporters who
were killed in a blast at Benazir Bhutto's homecoming rally near Karsaz
in October 2007. Being termed as a “Salam Shuhuda Rally”, the caravan
was spearheaded by its young leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who
addressed the large gathering at several checkpoints between the planned
route from Bilawal House to the Karsaz intersection. While the rally
commemorated the victims of the Karsaz bombing, it was primarily meant
as a symbolic gesture signaling the winds of change: PPP's tentative
political revival.
While
the PPP Chairman, accompanied by senior party leaders, made steep
promises to bring 'change to Pakistan', it is perhaps the first time
that the PPP scion has ventured out of the confines of Sindh's political
circuitry, which is also his home base. It is only now, in the face of a
different Pakistan and a changing global world that Bilawal Bhtutto
Zardari plans to resume his role in not only PPP's alleged revival but
also its transformed relationship with governance itself. Being the
largest opposition in the first ever democratically transitioned
government, it has come a long way since its last stint in forming a
federal government. In addition, PPP makes the better part of the Sindh
Government, and has enabled them to sharpen their constitutional
knowledge and political know how. Although Pakistan’s next general
elections are planned for 2018, political parties are nonetheless busy
augmenting their own future political sagas in hopes of capturing a
burgeoning electorate.
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