Pakistan’s parliament elects first woman speaker
This is interesting:
As expected, Pakistan’s parliament has selected its first female speaker.
“Dr. Fehmida Mirza has received 249 votes,” incumbent Chaudhry Amir Hussain, a supporter of President Pervez Musharraf, announced the vote total in the 342-seat National Assembly.
Parliament members then pounded their open hands on their desks for 30 seconds to applaud Fehmida Mirza of the Pakistan Peoples Party. The 51-year-old medical doctor and mother of four children is a third-generation Pakistani politician. Her father twice served in the cabinet; her husband was a member of parliament; and her father-in-law was a Supreme Court justice.
I wonder if she could take over Bhutto’s party and eventually become the next PM?
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Sunny, please check your email.
“I wonder if she could take over Bhutto’s party and eventually become the next PM?”
If she isn’t in Bhutto’s will then she cannot lead the party. Bhutto’s Son is the chosen heir in the will.
This is feudal dynasty democracy – we allow voting as long as we are in charge!
I was about to say in response to Sunny that I think Mirza would have a shot at PM later on but after reading #2 I don’t know. Is that true? I suppose it’s not surprising if it is.
They should rename the party to Bhutto’s Peoples Party(BPP).
What exactly will this parliament accomplish that previous parliaments have not?
In Bangladesh and Pakistan the only two choices at the moment are between:
-Corrupt feudal & incompetent elected party political groups or
-Unaccountable authoritarian but marginally more competent military rule
Democracy and Secularism are evolutionary and tweakable, as opposed to Divine Law and Military rule. This is still millions of miles better than what Pakistan was cursed with before. Idiots sitting in England who wish for Paksitanis to continue to live in feudal oligarchies should be ashamed of themselves.
ashik agree. .indian scontinent is going through a period of experimantation and social change. discredited elites both in politics and in the army. Hopefully responsible people will come forward with public spirit not avarice in the future. thats why diaspora is important.
Sid – I think the question is more how you wrench control from feudal oligarchies as Benazir whilst advocating democracy and securlarism only approved of it if it meant her party got power and it was literally her party.
So in order to progress one needs to get rid of essentially corrupt feudal oligarchies.
That was my point at least in my earlier post.