![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He had annoyed Bhutto, his mentor, by becoming an obvious threat. Shahida said that this Mustafa Khar was extremely popular here, having earned the nickname 'Lion of the Punjab', and some said that he had been the second most powerful politician in the whole of Pakistan - second only to Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Punjab wielded great political power in the federal government therefore, its chief minister would be a man of consequence. The Punjab is the largest province of the country, ruled more or less by the whims of the feudal lords who controlled vast land holdings and whose vassals voted as instructed. I asked Shahida to tell me more about this man, and I learned that he had just resigned as chief minister of the Punjab. 'Oh.' I thought: Mus-sta-fa-khar's wife is very beautiful.
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