Benazir Bhutto & Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s Daughter Aseefa To Make Electoral Debut

Aseefa Bhutto, the youngest daughter of slain PM Benazir Bhutto and present Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has decided to enter electoral politics by fighting the bye-poll at a National Assembly seat in Sindh Province vacated by her father.

Till the right time, Aseefa, 31, was kept away from parliamentary politics by her father Zardari, who is also the co-chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

Aseefa filed nomination papers on Sunday in the bye-election for the NA-207 constituency of Shaheed Benzirabad district in the Sindh province. The bye-elections will be held on April 21, and Aseefa is almost sure to win.

Her father and president, Asif Ali Zardari, won the seat but vacated it after becoming president.

Aseefa looks like her mother, who was killed in 2007 in a bombing and suicide attack in Rawalpindi. Her brother, Bilawal, is the chairperson of the PPP.

Aseefa is considered a natural heir to her mother, who took over the party after her father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged in 1979.