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Women fawn over Bilawal at home and online
Ever wondered what Benazir Bhutto, the slain Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader, would have thought of the way her 19-year-old son Bilawal Zardari-Bhutto is being wooed and fawned over, not just in cyber world but in her hometown of Karachi?
- IANS
- Published: 00:54 January 22, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
Karachi: Ever wondered what Benazir Bhutto, the slain Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader, would have thought of the way her 19-year-old son Bilawal Zardari-Bhutto is being wooed and fawned over, not just in cyber world but in her hometown of Karachi?
There seems to be no stopping the global members - now 2,264 - of the Facebook virtual group "Let's not assassinate Bilawal Bhutto because he's cute, ok?" which suddenly sprouted after Bilawal was crowned the new leader of his mother's party.
It has photographs, song dedications, video posts and even an ugly and out-of-hand catfight.
With their imagination running amok, the young female members of the group appear like cyber stalkers of the Oxford undergrad, calling him their "romeo" with "yummy eyes", "perfect nose", "rosy cheeks" and a "flirty smile".
There is also a "want to marry Bilawal Zardari Bhutto" group with 20 members challenging "Do you have what it takes to become Mrs Bhutto Zardari?"
But this adulation is not restricted to cyberspace alone.
There is a teeming crowd of young girls, mostly from private, up-market schools, who have suddenly fallen in love with Bilawal and become his most loyal supporters.
When he returns in five years, he will already have a large vote bank of affluent, English-speaking, pretty and fashionable cheer leaders to welcome his homecoming.
However, there is yet another league which has begun comparing him to his cousin, Zulfiqar Junior, the son of Benazir's slain brother Mir Murtaza Bhutto. They find the latter far more attractive - or to be precise a "hundred times better" looking than Bilawal.
Fifteen-year-old Asma Abid said Bilawal is just another "ordinary bloke" and is annoyed by all this preposterous fanaticism.
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