The Bhutto family and Pakistan: power, politics, and the deep state

Abstract

Military coup d'etats are the worst enemies of national unity. Coup d'etats divides and debases a free people. If there was any doubt on the subject, the events in Pakistan have shown that the people of the Third World have to primarily guard against the internal enemy, if foreign domination or hegemony is to be resisted.

Patrons and Clients

“…She inherited her father's political party, the Pakistani People's Party and the political structure. Her son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, is now a minister, party leader and inheritor of the political family and the structure that sustain it (Hughes & Shaffer, 2021;Bennett-Jones, 2020;Bhutto, 2007). In India, the Nehru-Gandhi family dynasty is synonymous with power and royalty.…”