Asif Ali Zardari is the new President of Pakistan. Bhutto Dynasty continues…. September 9, 2008
Posted by blogerita in : Government, Politics , add a commentIslamabad : Benazir Bhutto and her dad, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto must be smiling from their graves. The Bhutto dynasty has reemerged again. Husband of Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, was elected the new president of Pakistan to replaced Pervez Musharraf, who was forced to resign after ruling for nine years.
Asif Ali Zardari took over the leadership of the Pakistan People Party (PPP) after his wife, Benazir Bhutto, was assasinated in December. In his acceptance speech, he paid tribute to his late wife by saying “I accept the presidency of Pakistan in the name of… Benazir Bhutto. I accept this in her name and in the name of all the martyrs of democracy.”
Removing Pervez Musharraf is the first step. The toughest challenge that lies ahead is to heal the country of of its divisve politics among the democrats and islamist. Pakistan is has rough relationship with its neighbours like India, Iran and Afghanistan over the years. Zardari has to establish relationship with these countries and to balance the influence of USA at the same time. If he is seen as a puppet of USA, then he will have challenge in getting internal support for his policies.
Best of luck to Zardari. Long Live Bhutto.
Samak Sundaravej is forced to quit September 9, 2008
Posted by blogerita in : Politics , add a commentBangkok : Samak Sundaravej’s problem never seem to end. From the day his People Power Party (PPP) won the general election in Thailand. he was beseige with problem after problem. When his party won the Thailand general election, he was accused of being Thaksin Shinawatra’s proxy.
Currently, he faced massive demonstration in Bangkok with protesters from People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) demanding him to step down. The protesters have brricaded themselves in the Government House compound for the past two weeks. There was no sign of giving up from either side.
Finally, Samak was defeated by the Thailand Constitutional Court who ordered him to quit his prime minister post for appearing in a television cooking show. With him stepping down, the Deputy Prime Minister, Somchai Wongsawat, will be acting Prime Minister. But this will not pacify the protesters. Somchai is Thaksin’s brother in law.
Thailand politics is going round in circles since Thaksin was overthrown by the bloodless coup in 2006.
