Former president Asif Ali Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari were seen in a group photo with their family as they had a reunion in Dubai on Saturday.
“Don’t believe the headlines - we’re only & always about family first,” Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari said in a post on X, erstwhile Twitter. Bakhtawar and Zardari’s sister Faryal Talpur were also seen in the picture.
The development comes as media reported alleged rumours of differences between father and son. They are also the top two leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party.
On Friday, party leader Sherry Rehman and Faisal Karim Kundi rejected such rumours and maintained that the visit of Bilawal to Dubai was scheduled.
Media outlets had linked Bilawal’s visit to the United Arab Emirates city with Zardari’s interview with Hamid Mir on his show Capital Talk which was aired on Geo News on Thursday.
“Bilawal is not completely trained and now we are training him,” he had said.
When the shocked host pressed him on his answer, Zardari shook his head. “He [Bilawal] will take time.” Zardari agreed that Bilawal was more talented, educated, and better-spoken than him. “But experience is experience.”
In the same interview, the PPP co-chairperson said: “The younger generation these days has their own thinking […] everyone has a right to express their thoughts.”
He was responding to queries related to Bilawal’s recent statements that senior politicians should sit and new faces should be given a chance to lead the country.
“Stopping someone will only create more problems. What if he says ‘You do politics, I will not’? Then what will I do? Bilawal’s remarks were directed at everyone. He is saying it to everyone and not just Zardari sahib,” he had said.
The former president had admitted that even he sometimes made mistakes. “It’s not like I don’t make [mistakes]. The journey of life is to learn from cradle to grave.”
But the speculations further increased when Bilawal changed his profile picture on X. The updated display picture showed him and his late mother Benazir Bhutto.
