One of the Western intelligence agencies have romantic relations
between youngest foreign minister of Pakistan, Hina Rabbani Khar and
Bilawal Bhutto, the son of President Asif Ali Zardari and slain
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The report even indicated a
'cold feud' between the father and the son, following Bilawal's decision
of marrying Hina Rabbani Khar, as she is poised to end her marital
relations with millionaire businessman Firoze Gulzar, from whom she has
two daughters named Annaya and Dina. Born on November 19, 1977, Hina
Rabbani Khar hails from an influential feudal and landowner family and
is the daughter of politician and landowner Nur Rabbani Khar and the
niece of Ghulam Mustafa Khar, a former Governor of Punjab. The Khar
family has roots in the village of Khar Gharbi located in Kot Adu
– a tehsil (subdivision) in Muzaffargarh District in Punjab; and has
many land holdings. The Khar family owns an estate that includes
fisheries, mango orchards, and sugarcane fields as well as a local steel
mill.
After graduating from local high school, Khar attended the Lahore
University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 1995, and earned B.Sc. in
Economics with cum laude in 1999. The same year, she went to
United States to resume her higher studies and attended the
post-graduate school of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and
subsequently earned a Master's degree in Hospitality and Tourism
Management in 2002.
Hina Rabbani Khar was brought into national prominence and national
political arena by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in 2004, who publicly
appointed her into the Finance ministry. In previous 2002 general
elections, she successfully contested and secured the parliamentary
constituency of her father, after most members of the family were
disqualified. With financial support of her father, she campaigned on a
newly founded PML (Q Group) platform against Pakistan Muslim League.
After the elections, Khar was elected as a Member of Parliament,
representing the NA-177, Muzaffargarh-II constituency in Punjab, a
position her father had held previously, but a new law requiring all
candidates to hold a university degree meant he could not run that year.
The Guardian wrote, "In deference to local sensibilities about
the place of women, her landlord father Noor addressed rallies and
glad-handed voters; Hina stayed largely at home, with not even her photo
appearing on the posters." In 2005, she was elevated as the deputy
minister of economic affairs and served under Shaukat Aziz. As deputy
minister, she dealt extensively with the donor community during the 2005
earthquake that hit Northern Pakistan.
In 2007, she made an unsuccessful attempt to renew her alliance with
PML-Q, but the party denied her a ticket platform to campaign for
re-election in 2008, she was later invited by the senior members of the
Pakistan Peoples Party and successfully campaign for her constituency
for a second time. The PPP secured plurality of the votes and formed a
left-wing alliance with the Awami National Party, MQM and PML-Q. They
nominated and elected Yousaf Raza Gillani as Prime Minister.
It is learnt from the intelligence source that, President Asif Ali
Zardari is vehemently opposing his son's willingness of knotting marital
relations with a woman with two children, saying it would not only
jeopardize Bilawal's political career but would also invite political
doom for the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
Being aggrieved by
his son's ego and determination in making family with Hina Rabbani Khar,
Asif Ali Zardari played key-role behind using country's intelligence
agencies in spreading the scandal about the evasion of electricity bills
worth 70 million Rupees by Galaxy Textile Mills, a company owned by
Khar's husband Firoze Gulzar and father-in-law. The media reports also
alleged that she and her husband are also among many other beneficiaries
of NRO - an ordinance drafted to save corruption money and provide
immunity to the corrupt.
At this stage, sensing his father's aggressive attitude towards Hina
Rabbani Khar, Bilawal expressed anger and even threatened of resigning
from the post of Presidency of Pakistan People's Party. He even told
Asif Ali Zardari that he would settle in Switzerland with Hina Rabbani
Khar and her daughters, though later he even told his father that, Hina
might leave her daughters with her husband after the divorce. It may be
mentioned here that, Bilawal Bhutto's mother Benazir Bhutto left a
hidden wealth worth a few billion dollars in Switzerland and Bilawal is
the legal nominee of all those properties. The secret affairs between
Bilawal Bhutto and Hina Rabbani Khar came to the knowledge of Asif Ali
Zardari, when the duo was caught in compromised situation inside the
official residence of the President, where his son Bilawal Bhutto also
resides. Later, President Zardari collected mobile call records between
Bilawal and Hina and found evidences of relations between the two. The
relations became much exposed to Asif Ali Zardari, when Hina Rabbani
Khar sent Bilawal a greeting card on his birthday on September 21, 2011
with hand-written message stating – "The foundation of our relations is
eternal and soon we shall be just ourselves."
It may be mentioned here that, Bilawal Bhutto is 11 years younger than
Hina Rabbani Khar. Earliest this year, Bilawal Bhutto was caught in sex
scandal with some unknown females.
BY : Preeta Memon.
