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Fatima Bhutto

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first: 2021-12-14
most recent: 2021-12-14
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“Yes, he did this incredible thing, which was that he never lied to me, so he never pretended that things were not frightening at times, and in fact spoke quite freely around me, so I knew things like dictatorship and martial law, and I knew these words at a young age, and I knew that bad things had happened in my family, and I could see my father's pain, and he never hid his feelings either, so I saw him struggle. But at the same time he was somebody who loved life and enjoyed life, and was curious about the world, and so he didn't teach me to be afraid he taught me to be unafraid, but at the same time to be vulnerable as well. It's amazing that even today, I mean, I'm 37 now, my father was killed when I was 14, but it's those lessons that really I have with me today and that keep pushing me forward”
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“My parents divorced when I was quite young about three years old, and I was very attached to my father, and so I adapted quite easily and he became my father and mother and babysitter and best friend and everything rolled into one, and I really credit him actually with so much because being raised by a father who never told you there were any limits to what you could do or should do was incredibly liberating, and strangely remains till this day.”
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“Yeah, exactly. And so we got our news on the radio from the BBC, but you couldn't really pick up Western newspapers or things like that. At the same time, of course, Western culture was unavoidable, so you got all the Eddie Murphy movies or episodes of Dallas and Cheers and things like that. It was an unusual time, but I had a happy childhood in Syria.”
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“Yeah, we lived there till I was twelve and my father becomes a single father and his life is now haircuts for little girls and bedtime stories and teaching me how to read and write and we had a pretty strange but also a normal fun childhood. Syria at the time was quite a closed society and I wrote about this a little bit in New Kings of the World. It was a time when you couldn't really get very much except the BBC World Service news on the radio.”
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“Thank you, Samira, for that welcome and introduction. To begin speaking after all that. My father was in exile in Afranesan and he was resisting the military dictatorship. He was a very young man. He was 28 years old when I was born, but he was 25 years old when Bakisan's upward path was halted and halted quite brutally by a military dictatorship that essentially stopped the momentum that Pakistan had been building for itself. It was an incredibly young country at the time. And Genoze al Haku was a CIA backed dictator just brutalized the society so there was mass censorship, mass arrests, public floggings, journalists were rounded up and whipped in stadiums, and my father was one of the political young Bakazanis at the time, resisting the dictatorship actively, but I would say I think my birth got a bit in the way. It sounds like a very tense time and it certainly was before I.”
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“My father stepped out of the car to ask what was happening, a signal was given to Shoot to commence firing, and my father and six other men were killed that night. incredibly corrosive, corrosive force with my father was a threat to her My father was a critic. My aunt herself was killed years later, and so there's no chance to ask her.”
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