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A senior official of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) told TIME late Saturday that the slain former prime minister's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, will likely be named as her political heir and the new party leader on Sunday.

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david_nwpa
Dec. 29, 2007, 7:21 p.m.
Bhutto's successor in the form of her 19 year old son? Such a concept would be impossible in the United States, but maybe one as young as this young man could lead Pakistan back to a peaceful state. Good luck to them.
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jordan11
Dec. 29, 2007, 8:23 p.m.
A courageous family. I'll hope the best for him.
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Poulenc
Dec. 30, 2007, 8:52 a.m.
No one, I repeat, no one aged nineteen is in a position to lead a movement/political party. (I'm putting aside the notion that the boy would be a figurehead only, directed by others.)
From the physiological POV, one's brain is still developing at that age. And no matter how many confrontations with brute reality, one still needs the perspective and experience that only time provides.
In other words: WHAT?!
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contentmanager
Jan. 2, 2008, 7:18 a.m.
With the idealistic sixties behind us, I find it hard to believe that the people who were of age in that decade could later doubt that a 19yo could lead an activist revolution. There were several college kids who were thrust into positions of activist leadership and lived up to the ideals of that time.
In the Middle Ages, the average leader was not beyond his thirties, yet no modern-day American would choose a 30yo leader, would they?
The leaders of old were made on the battle fields of the world. And Bhutto's son has lived in the Pakistani battlefield most of his life, watching over his mother solider who was on the front lines.
He might have what it takes. And his father has pledged to stand with him to assist in matters of party leadership.
He may be in a good position to be a great leader. You don't know that he is not.
When you and I look in the mirror we know we would not have been good leaders at 19, but our experience is not reflective of everyone.