One day, Babul’s sister’s car was taken at gunpoint. Robberies were rampant, but the police were corrupt as well and only pretended to chase the culprits.” “We could hear gun shots outside of our house. “Children were kidnapped and placed on the sidewalk after having their organs removed,” she said. Around the same time, members of the Taliban were slowly creating a stronghold in Peshawar. Ten Percent.’ There was corruption everywhere.”īabul said that her father, a successful textile manufacturer in Karachi, constantly received threats from the local goons. “After Benazir came to power, her husband, Asif Zardari (the current president of Pakistan), openly accepted bribes. “It was awful,” Babul said, during a flight home to Seattle after picking up her 17-year-old daughter, Neha. Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 after a Pakistan Peoples Party rally in Rawalpindi. Thirty-five thousand feet above San Francisco, Rozina Babul recounted the story of her life - one not unlike those of the 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims who have overcome personal and historical circumstances to emerge as a thriving global community.īorn and brought up in Karachi, Pakistan, Babul moved to the United States more than a decade ago with her family to find refuge from the violence under former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s government. The Ismaili Marching Band entertain parade attendees at City of Kirkland’s Fourth of July parade last year.
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