Oxford University seeks to inspire British Pakistani and Bangladeshi children

• Eastern Eye Staff
• 27 June, 2017

By: Eastern Eye Staff

By Amit Roy Benazir Bhutto, the late prime minister of Pakistan, was famously a student at Oxford, as was her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and her son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. But then the Bhuttos belonged to a wealthy feudal dynasty and probably saw getting into Oxford as their birthright. As an undergraduate in the late 1970s, Benazir became president of the Oxford Union, the first Asian woman to be elected to the post. She led a carefree life which included running around in a sports car which she used to take her to London for her favourite icecream. But British-born…

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