[sinanju]

What I was saying was that Rajiv Ghandi should have declined the throne when his mother got offed by her Sikh bodyguards during the Amritsar pogrom of 84’. He was not the heir apparent but his older brother Sanjay had been killed crashing his airplane earlier.

This dynastic politics is abhorrent to a democracy. Needless to say, we should not be going down that road ourselves.

[Dixie Yooper]

This dynastic politics is abhorrent to a democracy. Needless to say, we should not be going down that road ourselves.

Case-in-point, Ronald Reagan Jr.

[elpadre]

“before taking full-time control of his mother’s political party, and continuing Pakistan’s most fabled and endangered political dynasty.”

Are all political parties in Pakistan owned by individuals, as this statement suggests? Is Bhutto’s party akin to a monarchy and thereby considered royalty?

I do understand the tribalism that controls the north, but I don’t get how these political parties operate. Help!!