Islamabad: Nineteen-year-old Bilawal will replace his slain mother Benazir Bhutto as chief of Pakistan Peoples Party, the country's most influential political outfit, a PPP leader said Saturday.
"It has been decided according to the will of Benazir Bhutto that will be read by her son Bilawal on Sunday,” the PPP leader told news agency IANS on conditions of anonymity.
He said that Bhutto had sealed her will that was in possession of her son and two daughters - Bakhrtawar and Assefa in Dubai. The party official said that Bhutto's will along with a letter written by her would be read by her son after the collective prayers for her on Sunday at Bhutto House.
He said that the party offered Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari the opportunity to lead the PPP, but he refused saying that according to the will, their son would lead the party.
The party leader said that Zardari, who is in Nowdera at Bhutto House, took the party leaders into confidence regarding appointment of Bilawal as the party chief.
Bilawal, born on Sep 21, 1988, is studying political science at Oxford University. He received his primary education from Frobels International School in Islamabad and later continued his studies at Sheikh Rashid School in Dubai.
The party leader said that PPP officials in the meeting with Zardari assured him that they would guide Bilawal in each and every matter.
Probe to end in seven days
The judicial inquiry into former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto's assassination will be completed within seven days, a government spokesman told news agency PTI on Saturday.
A judge of the Lahore High Court will head the judicial inquiry committee, interior ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema told reporters.
Bhutto's security advisor Rehman Malik is an important witness to the attack on her by a suicide bomber and his assistance will be sought for the investigation, Cheema said.
Official sources were quoted by Dawn News channel as saying that the judge who would head the inquiry committee would be chosen after consultations with Zardari.
The two-time premier was assassinated by a suicide attacker soon after she had addressed an election rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday.
(IANS and PTI)
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