Let us look at the top 10 weddings of the year. This wedding would outperform TomCats’ wedding.
The Top 10 Weddings of the Year according to In Touch
TomKat are still the best and invincible. According to a poll compiled by In Touch magazine, the fairytale wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, held November in Italy, is the number one Wedding of the Year. Give applause to the couple.
Ranked 2nd on the poll is the wedding of Deryck Whibley and Avril Lavigne held in Montecito, California. Coming in at 3rd is that of Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson, just one place ahead of Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling marriage which ranked 4th. The Top 5th Wedding of the Year is that of Thomas Jane and Patricia Arquette.
Rounding out the Top 10 are Brigitte Nielsen and Mattia Dessi at No. 6, followed by Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern at 7th spot, Pink and Carey Hart at No. 8, Oliver Hudson and Erinn Bartlett at No. 9, and Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at No. 10.
Meanwhile in South Asia there are other budding romances and possibilities….
The “aankh matakka” could have happened at the Prime Minister’s house or at the local Karachi McDonalds. Both are foreign bred snobs. Both are smart and pretty. Both are intelligent. We are talking about feudals where such marriages are routinely consummated. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was married to his child bride when he was very young. He married Nusrat Isphani Bhutto in later years. His first wife remained in the village.
Mumtaz Bhutto the failed Sindhi leader is a feudal of the worst degree. His entire demeanor is about the old school thought.
A wedding between the estranged Bhutto clan would be the event of the year in South Asia. Almost a royal wedding.
A Royal wedding in Pakistan would change the atmosphere of the country. There are rumors that Sanam Bhutto had suggested that Bilawal Zardari Bhutto (19) marry Fatima Bhutto (25). This may or may not happen. In the style of the Kennedy’s Mumtaz Bhutto who was thrown out fo the party by Benazir Bhutto is trying to play Godfather and bring the clan together. Is this “royal” wedding possible? Sanam Bhutto is not talking!
Shhh!
Bhutto family at war with itself 5 Jan 2008, 2323 hrs IST,Ishtiaq Ali Mehkri
KARACHI: Three gunshots. A loud bang. Assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Violent end of one more Bhutto. Even in death, Benazir maintained the family tradition. Almost everyone in her family had an unnatural death. The Bhuttos share a history – fighting political battles with the establishment and squabbling among themselves for personal glory and family property.The Bhuttos’ is a tale of power, politics and death. One of the richest and influential families of the subcontinent, the family has lived under the shadow of violence. The Bhuttos own around 40,000 acres of land in Sindh and assets worth billions of dollars. Family feuds and political rivalries have always kept the Bhuttos divided. Although the name attracts votes and sends shivers through the army, the family members have lived isolated lives, coming close only to fight with each other. Pakistan’s love affair with the Bhuttos began with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who gave Pakistan three undeniable treasures: a ballot culture, the constitution of 1973 and the nuclear programme. Zulfiqar was the son of Shahnawaz Bhutto, the prime minister of Sindh during the British Raj.
As he rose in prominence, Zulfiqar ran into personal feuds with his cousins and elder family members. Zulfiqar’s first major family battle happened in 1973, when he sacked his cousin Mumtaz Ali’s government in Sindh after Urdu-Sindhi riots. Though Mumtaz was with Zulfiqar when the latter founded the PPP, their differences grew as Mumtaz demanded more autonomy for Sindh. They became hostile to each other in 1973. On April 4, 1979, when Zulfiqar was hanged by Gen Zia-ul-Haq, Mumtaz decided to keep quiet. After Zulfiqar’s execution, Mumtaz wanted to be the PPP leader and he opposed Benazir and Nusrat Bhutto’s agitation politics against the military regime.
At the peak of the Benazir-led Movement for Restoration of Democracy campaign in 1980s, Mumtaz advocated a hardline approach for Sindh as a confederate republic. His expulsion from the PPP at the hands of his niece, Benazir, led him to found the Sindh-Baloch-Pakhtoon Front in 1985. He now heads the Sindh National Front.
Mumtaz, 73, the patriarch of the 700,000-strong Bhutto clan, never forgave Benazir for throwing him out of the party. Just two weeks before her assassination, Mumtaz was spitting fire at his niece, blaming her for cutting off water supply to his land for the past 15 years.
And, just a few hours after Benazir was buried at the family mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Baksh, Mumtaz opened a new front in the family war by casting doubts on the authenticity of Benazir’s will. He called Asif Ali Zardari, widower of Benazir, an opportunist and accused him of hijacking the party.
In fact, Benazir’s estrangement with her clan began in 1987 when she married Zardari – a petty businessman and small Baloch landowner from Nawabshah. The Bhutto clan accused Zardari of sullying the PPP reputation with his shady deals. Even Benazir’s younger brother, Mir Murtaza, had serious problems with Zardari.
Murtaza had his own way of doing politics. He bitterly differed with his Benazir on her policies in taking on the military regime of Gen Zia. He campaigned for overthrowing the military government while living in exile in Kabul, London and Damascus. He formed a breakaway faction of the Peoples Party and also led its so-called military wing known as Al-Zulfiqar. It was the Bhutto brothers “military” plans that led to the mysterious death of his younger brother Shahnawaz in France in 1986.
During his years in exile, Murtaza often accused Benazir of betraying their father’s policies. He opposed her dialogue with the establishment. When PPP won a simple majority in 1988 elections, the first after Gen Zia’s death, and walked in to form the government, Murtaza advised his sister to sit on the opposition benches as he believed that Benazir would be compelled to compromise on essential policy issues with the civil-military bureaucracy. But Benazir refused to listen to Murtaza.
Murtaza, who faced hijacking, killings and bombing cases in Pakistan, continued to live in exile. He was hardly on talking terms with Benazir. When Benazir became prime minister for the second time in 1993, Murtaza came back to Pakistan, asking his sister to not to follow Zardari’s devious methods. As Benazir ignored him, Murtaza launched his own party in Karachi, challenging Benazir in her stronghold. In 1996, Murtaza was gunned down by the police. Murtaza’s death raised many eyebrows and the Bhutto family feud became more intense as Murtaza’s Lebanese-born widow Ghinwa formally charged Benazir and Zardari as collaborators in the crime. Zardari had been behind bars for seven long years on charges of murdering his brother-in-law, without a formal conviction in the case. After Mumtaz’s death, Ghinwa began to lead PPP (Shaheed Bhutto), with the backing of all the estranged leaders of Peoples Party who had a score to settle with Benazir on personal and political grounds. Despite her acidic attacks on Benazir, Ghinwa was not able to make a dent into her sister-in-law’s towering image.
As Benazir emerged as a truly national leader, she dwarfed everyone else in the clan. Now, with Benazir gone from the scene, the Bhuttos are squabbling once again. Murtaza’s daughter, Fatima, has been an acerbic critic of her aunt. And she has political plans. Though Zardari has taken over the mantle of PPP leadership and named their son Bilawal as the next Bhutto heir, that is bound to be contested on hereditary and political grounds. The next phase of Bhutto dynasty rivalry will be between Bilawal and Fatima.
(The writer is a senior journalist in Karachi)
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I truly don’t think that Bilawal and Fatima are a match made in heaven. Fatima Bhutto seems to be a mature and sensible human being whereas Bilawal is still a 19 year old in college. Furthermore, until Asif Zardari remains co-chairman of the PPP, Bilawal will not be an autonomous leader. I don’t think Fatima would want to have anything to do with her uncle who she despised and believes to be her father’s killer.
every thing is possible in politics may be couple made in heavean
I really foot think that bilawal and fatima are a couple made in heaven because fatima is quite matured and elder to him and i dont think that fatima will marry bilawal because she had a rivalary with Benazir bhutto.
Thank you for your feedback. It was a question…and you are probably right…but imagine the possibilities of the Bhutto family coming together and imagine the genes!
WTF
how funny, made in heaven = only blind PPP followers and Anti-Pakistan people have such opinions
Made in Heaven, Sheesh
They are just one of the families who are eating Pakistan from inside and getting paychecks from outside.
After 1 gone, inheritance function starts, till infinity. Simple javascript logic.
Moin,
Fatima marrying her father’s killer’s son? This is perverse from too many different angles. He is like 10 years old and has those comedic eyebrows. Also, the poor fellow has zardari genes.