Pakistani Cricket Players: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Biography
At the age of 19, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has been thrust into front-line politics in one of the most turbulent countries in the world.
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As chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, the first-year Oxford University undergraduate - whose first language is English - will play a prominent role in a country he barely knows, alongside a father he has not seen properly for years.

Described by friends as studious and devoted to his mother, the teenager is a novice to public life.
He has yet to debate in the Oxford Union and would have to squeeze in the January elections before he returns to the UK for his second term at university.
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Bilawal - the name means "one without equal" - was born in September 1988, three months before his mother Benazir was elected prime minister for the first time.
She went into self-imposed exile in April 1999, taking Bilawal and his two younger sisters with her, and divided their time between London and Dubai. For most of this time, his father Asif Ali Zardari was in jail in Pakistan on blackmail and corruption charges.
As a teenager, Bilawal said: "I have gone through lots of things and he wasn't there. At the time when we needed him, he was taken away. We were denied a normal life."
Bilawal won a place at Christ Church College in Oxford, also attended by his grandfather, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who founded the PPP. His mother was at Lady Margaret Hall and became president of the Oxford Union.
Victoria Schofield, a close friend of Miss Bhutto who has known Bilawal since he was a baby, said she was convinced he would rise to the challenge presented him.
"He was devoted to his mother, there is no doubt about that. He is not a flash spoilt brat by any means."
"He will be so emotionally connected to what his mother has suggested that there will be no question of him doing anything different."
Despite the expectation upon his shoulders, he is determined to carry on with his life at Oxford.
"It was his mother's greatest joy that he got to Oxford," said Ms Schofield, adding that Miss Bhutto would have expected him to return to his studies. However, that university life could well change, with increased security in the wake of his mother's death. Ms Schofield believes that Bilawal will also have to learn quickly about his homeland,.
"He has barely been to Pakistan, he would have been 11 when he left," she said.
"He does speak Urdu and Arabic but English is his first language, that was what was spoken in the home.
"He has also got to work on a new relationship with his father - he didn't really knew his father as a boy."
In 2004, a prophetic Bilawal looked both to the past and the future when he said: "My grandfather was a very courageous man and I consider myself very lucky because I have three powerful role models that will obviously influence my career choices when I am older."
Four years later, he finds himself the teenage heir to that political dynasty facing a crisis unmatched by even its own standards.

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