Before leading PPP, Bilawal must learn Urdu, Sindhi
KARACHI:? If Machiavelli wrote The Prince in present-day Pakistan, an additional chapter in the book would be titled: Learn local languages before leading your party. To groom the party’s current chairperson, who’s spent most of his life abroad, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders and workers have been asked to speak in Urdu and Sindhi with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Bilawal, who recently graduated from Oxford University and lists English as his first language, is not the first Bhutto with limited grasp over local languages. His mother, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, also went to Oxford and learnt Urdu and Sindhi as secondary languages before taking over the party reins. (Non)-mother tongue “Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his daughter were fluent in Urdu … but they had grammatical issues, and the accents were not clear,” said Dr Ghulam Hussain, a close associate of Zulfikar. “You cannot imagine Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s aptitude for languages. He learnt Sindhi and Urdu in a very short span of time,” Dr Hussain added. Despite hailing from a Sindhi-speaking family, Bhutto’s command over his native language was initially non-existent.
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