Naeem Aslam Chowdry, a businessman who returned from Britain to run for Parliament from a district in the northern city of Gujrat, said: “What choice do we have? Bilawal will have a role to play. I believe it’s critical. It’s the name.”
Abida Hussain, a longtime family friend and a member of the party’s executive committee, said she hoped he also had his mother’s large heart. Yes, she said, Bilawal matters, because bloodlines matter. “We are like that — we are sentimental,” she said.