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APPRENTICESHIP TO POWER NATURE AND EXTENT OF POLITICAL MENTORING OF BENAZIR BHUTTO UNDER TUTELAGE OF HER FATHER 19531977

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-I).04      10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-I).04      Published : Mar 2019

Apprenticeship to Power: Nature and Extent of Political Mentoring of Benazir Bhutto Under Tutelage of her Father (1953-1977)

Abstract

    It has been claimed that Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a leading politician and former president and prime minister of Pakistan, mentored his daughter Benazir Bhutto in politics since her childhood. The present study was carried out to explore the nature and extent of political mentoring accorded to Benazir Bhutto by her father. It highlights three modes of mentoring employed by her father and evaluates each of them separately. The modes of mentoring employed were (a) through letters and discussions during her early age, (b) through her attendance of major political events while she was a university student, and (c) her on-job training in the prime minister's secretariat after completion of her studies. It is concluded that the mentoring on the part of her father, whether intentional or unintentional, helped her a great deal in preparing her for the future role in the politics of Pakistan.

    Benazir Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan People Party, Democracy, Dictatorship, Pakistan, Mentoring

    (1) Muhammad Ali Shaikh
    Vice Chancellor, Department of Media Studies and Communication Studies, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi, Pakistan.
    (2) Stephen John
    Associate Professor, Department of Education, Sindh Madressatul Isl am University, Karachi, Pakistan. Email: stephen_blessed@yahoo.com
    (3) Hamida Zafar
    Professor, Department of Education, Jinnah University for Women Karachi, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Shaikh, M. A., John, S., & Zafar, H. (2019). Apprenticeship to Power: Nature and Extent of Political Mentoring of Benazir Bhutto Under Tutelage of her Father (1953-1977). Global Political Review, IV(I), 32-39. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-I).04

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Shaikh, Muhammad Ali, Stephen John, and Hamida Zafar. 2019. "Apprenticeship to Power: Nature and Extent of Political Mentoring of Benazir Bhutto Under Tutelage of her Father (1953-1977)." Global Political Review, IV (I): 32-39 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-I).04

HARVARD

    HARVARD : SHAIKH, M. A., JOHN, S. & ZAFAR, H. 2019. Apprenticeship to Power: Nature and Extent of Political Mentoring of Benazir Bhutto Under Tutelage of her Father (1953-1977). Global Political Review, IV, 32-39.

MHRA

    MHRA : Shaikh, Muhammad Ali, Stephen John, and Hamida Zafar. 2019. "Apprenticeship to Power: Nature and Extent of Political Mentoring of Benazir Bhutto Under Tutelage of her Father (1953-1977)." Global Political Review, IV: 32-39

MLA

    MLA : Shaikh, Muhammad Ali, Stephen John, and Hamida Zafar. "Apprenticeship to Power: Nature and Extent of Political Mentoring of Benazir Bhutto Under Tutelage of her Father (1953-1977)." Global Political Review, IV.I (2019): 32-39 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Shaikh, Muhammad Ali, John, Stephen, and Zafar, Hamida (2019), "Apprenticeship to Power: Nature and Extent of Political Mentoring of Benazir Bhutto Under Tutelage of her Father (1953-1977)", Global Political Review, IV (I), 32-39

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Shaikh, Muhammad Ali, Stephen John, and Hamida Zafar. "Apprenticeship to Power: Nature and Extent of Political Mentoring of Benazir Bhutto Under Tutelage of her Father (1953-1977)." Global Political Review IV, no. I (2019): 32-39. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(IV-I).04