Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (Vienna 2009)

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (born September 21, 1988 ; Urdu بلاول بھٹو زرداری; Birth name: Bilawal Zardari ) is a Pakistani politician . He ran as a candidate in the 2018 parliamentary elections .

family

He is the only son of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and the politician Asif Ali Zardari , and the grandson of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto .

His two sisters, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari and Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, do volunteer work. Aseefa is also a candidate for the 2018 parliamentary elections.

Since his mother fled into exile with him and his two younger sisters in 1999, he grew up without his father, who was in prison, in London and Dubai , where he also attended school.

education

Bhutto Zardari studied at Christ Church College of Oxford University Modern History and Politics (Modern history and politics), which he completed in June of 2010. In 2012 he did a Bachelor of Arts . In 2015, like his mother, he completed his Masters degree at Oxford

Political career

The then opposition Pakistani People's Party (PPP) appointed 19-year-old Bhutto Zardari as the new party leader on December 30, 2007 after its chairman Benazir Bhutto was murdered in an attack on December 27, 2007. His father Asif Ali Zardari was appointed co-party chairman. In the elections on February 18, 2008, the PPP was able to win a relative majority. From 2008 to 2013, Bilawal's father was President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan .

Web links

Commons : Bilawal Bhutto Zardari  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Delhi Television: Bilawal Bhutto named chairman of PPP ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 30, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ndtv.com
  2. ↑ Dawn.com | PPI: Bilawal to contest 2018 elections from Benazir's home constituency . In: DAWN.COM . September 15, 2014 ( dawn.com [accessed March 25, 2018]).
  3. ^ Official Website of Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari. Retrieved March 25, 2018 (American English).
  4. ↑ Aseefa Bhutto - The Express Tribune. Retrieved March 25, 2018 (American English).
  5. ↑ Aseefa Bhutto - The Express Tribune. Retrieved March 25, 2018 (American English).
  6. ^ Rob Crilly: Bhutto siblings open up about years in exile from Pakistan . February 9, 2014, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed March 25, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Bilawal Bhutto graduates from Oxford with MA degree , dawn.com, May 10, 2015, accessed May 12, 2015
  8. ↑ Mr. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari - PPP . In: PPP . ( org.pk [accessed March 25, 2018]). Mr. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari - PPP ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ppp.org.pk
  9. ^ Spiegel Online: 19-year-old Bhutto son takes over the party , December 30, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Bhutto Zardari, Bilawal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zardari, Bilawal (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani politician, Chairman of the Pakistani People's Party (PPP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1988