2 December 2009
The Bhutto name is legendary in Pakistan. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the country's first democratically elected prime minister. He was assassinated in 1979. His daughter Benazir was prime minister in 1988 and again in 1993. She was running for a third time in December 2007 when she also was assassinated. Benazir's brother Murtaza was murdered outside his home in 1996. His daughter Fatima was only 14 years old.
Since then, Fatima's own entrance into politics has long been speculated upon, especially after the assassination of her aunt Benazir. But 27-year-old Fatima Bhutto has denounced the family business, saying she prefers to stay active through writing, not elected office.
Fatima is a commentator and journalist and has written for the New Statesman and various Pakistani newspapers.
She's also a published a book on the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir and a collection of poetry, Whispers of the Desert.
Fatima Bhutto was a guest at the recent Ubud Writers' and Readers' festival in Bali. The Book Show's Sarah L'Estrange spoke to her about her reading life, rather than her political life.Click to listen
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http://www.abc.net.au
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Farif,
ReplyDeleteI am canceling my lunch date idea! Not scared of the shoes at all, but after listening to that, I don't think can hold a 1 min decent conversation!! Honestly, have no clue about half the people she mentioned she read!!Not the shoes on me that will embarrass but lack of knowledge surely will haha. So you are on your own now ;-)
Sorry u can't chicken out, what am I gonna do with all those shoes. As far as your problem is concerned will be uploadinga link on twitter, do chk that. BUT then the lunch will have to wait 4 around another 10yrs.!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOtherwise keep the google search engine open during the lunch. Shoes will come anyways so need for ur concentration.
See I am capable of serious talk as well..;-p
Google zindabad?? I used to do that during certain meetings, we had the wackiest of finance experts on our team and they were so stuck up with certain text book terms, to keep up some of us would have no other option! Saved my backside many times the thing called google
ReplyDeleteYou are so capable of serious talk, you actually deserved the Nobel!! Don't worry in 10 years after the lunch?
Still not convinced with attending the lunch, I am sitting on the fence...Besides the way our govts are heading, visa will be an issue for sure :P
Some people from our profession are some how glued to txtbook terms like leeches!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHmmmm Nobel??? Nayyyy guess now only the name's nobel nothing else associated with it...;-p There's this new tech being worked on(saw it on TED talk), my today's marketing class sort of revolved around it; new media, design, promotion etc its gonna be way more helpfull than google.
We can arrange a neutral venue like r cricket matches & just keep sitting on that fence, I'll pull u over; anywas you have a lot of practice of falling off ur chair..;-p