Osama Tells

I belong to a family whose elders have supported Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970’s. My grand father and father both admired Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. It will be a little less to say that my father was an admirer of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He was a Bhutto Enthusiast. Later on, when Benazir Bhutto came into politics all of my aunts liked her and supported her. Mostly Hindko speaking Peshawri s were supporters of the Bhutto Family. My introduction to   Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is not an ordinary story. During the elections of 2008 many old friends of my father who were part of PPP’s Student union in late 1970’s and early 1980’s use to come to our home and listen to speeches of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto, their eyes would shine. I simply asked my grandfather who is Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto? He told me all the details   about him. I suddenly asked him where are his sons? He said both his sons have passed away. Murtaza Bhutto was the elder son where as Shah Nawaz Bhutto was his yo...

Sitting in TV lounge discussing cricketing greats with my cousins and maternal uncles.   Once my maternal uncle   said that before Shahid Afridi there was a man who was as fearless as he is right now. He was the elder brother of Ramiz, Wasim Raja. This fascinated me a lot. I thought, once cricket that was known to be popular for test matches, where games were not really fast, there was a cricketer who was   popular for being a stroke player. Now as a curious young boy I started searching about him. Raja belonged to an upper middle class family. His father was a civil servant. His facial appearance was very different as compared to the other Pakistani players of that time. An intense looking man with a heavy beard, educated at the government college Lahore. Another factor that came forward was that he was not an easy going man. Wasim Raja was an introvert and moody. In a fundraiser that was held for Shaukat Khanum memorial hospital , when Imran was asked that who...