Aseefa Bhutto<\/a>, the youngest daughter of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and late premier Benazir Bhutto, has taken a plunge into the country’s tumultuous politics by filing her candidacy for the bypoll at a National Assembly seat in Sindh Province vacated by her father.<\/p>\nAseefa, 31, has been active in politics for some time but was kept away from parliamentary politics by her father Zardari, also the co-chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), until an opportune time.<\/p>\n
Following her father’s inauguration as the 14th president of Pakistan, Aseefa is poised to become the First Lady, a position traditionally held by the spouse of the president.<\/p>\n
Aseefa submitted nomination papers on Sunday in the bye-election for the NA-207 constituency of Shaheed Benzirabad district in the Sindh province.<\/p>\n
Her father and president, Asif Ali Zardari, won the seat but vacated it after becoming president.<\/p>\n
Aseefa has a resemblance to her mother, who was killed in a bombing and suicide attack in 2007 in Rawalpindi. Aseefa was then a teenager and suffered more emotionally as compared to her two elder siblings, Bakhtawar and Bilawal.<\/p>\n
Bilawal, a former foreign minister, is the chairperson of the PPP.<\/p>\n
It may be the reason that she was driven closer to her father, who, after becoming president, designated her the First Lady.<\/p>\n
Although her 35-year-old brother Bilawal had already taken over the party, Aseefa is considered a natural heir to her mother, who took over the party after her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged in 1979 due to alleged involvement in a murder case.<\/p>\n
The by-elections will be held on April 21, and Aseefa is almost sure to win. By becoming part of the parliament, she would strengthen her party and also family politics.<\/p>\n
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