By KUNA
London : Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s son Bilawal Tuesday urged the media to leave him alone, a week after he was named joint leader of her opposition Pakistan People’s Party.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 19, told a packed press conference in central London he hoped his privacy would be respected while he studied at Oxford University, in southern England.
He said his father would be in charge of the party while he was a student.
Bilawal Bhutto was chosen to lead the party after his mother was assassinated at an election rally late last month.
Todays news conference was the first time the teenager had addressed the world’s media since being thrust into the spotlight a little over a week ago.
He said he had agreed to take over from his mother because “politics is in my blood”.
But he added “My experience is limited… I intend to learn”.
He criticised the lengths some journalists had gone to in tracking down his personal details, particularly on the social networking site “Facebook”.
“When I am at Oxford I hope I can be left alone”, he stressed.
Bilawal Bhutto welcomed the assistance of United Kingdom police in the investigation into his mother’s death, but reiterated a call for a United Nations inquiry.
“We do not believe that an investigation under the authority of the Pakistani government has the necessary transparency. Already so much forensic evidence has been destroyed”, he said.