Ghazi salahuddin biography sample

A FEW weeks after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s execution, I drove to his grave with my family. In Larkana, Benazir was receiving people who were coming for condolences. A Sindhi-language journalist led us into her presence.

When informed that I was in Dawn, she apparently was not very pleased and said the meeting was not to be reported.

But when I told her my name and said that I wrote ‘Karachi Diary’, everything suddenly changed.

She called a friend rather excitedly: “Come, come”. And I felt extremely flattered when she quoted some sentences from my recent columns.

This was an exceptional instance of the kind of feedback that Karachi Diary would occasionally provoke during those days of pain and anxiety.

Ghazi salahuddin biography sample pdf

Almost the entire nation was in a state of bereavement. Readers of Dawn, drawn from more literate and more enlightened segments of society, were particularly irked by that drift towards militant obscurantism.

Since those days of the long night of Ziaul Haq’s Martial Law are now