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Updated 31 Jan, 2021

Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari is engaged and made it official with a picture .

After much hoopla on social media with users falsely claiming Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari got engaged in secret, the day finally arrived and people at last got the much-anticipated first look at the groom and THE dress (which was not green as speculated).

The newly engaged shared a picture of her and her fiancé Mahmood Choudhry, with a portrait of her late mother former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in the background, on social media.

A photo posted by Instagram (@instagram) on

The ceremony took place at Bilawal House in Karachi, with Bakhtawar's father, former president Asif Ali Zardari, and her sister Aseefa in attendance.

Her brother PPP chairperson Bilawal, however, could only be virtually present as he tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week.

All the guests were asked to undergo a Covid-19 test beforehand and photography was not allowed.

After the engagement, the couple will also be hosting a mehndi, scheduled for January 27, 2021, at the same venue — and all attendees have been requested to email a scanned copy of their negative Covid-19 PCR test result 24 hours prior to the event.

'An emotional day'

The bride-to-be tweeted ahead of her engagement earlier on Friday.

"Very sentimental and emotional day. So grateful for everyone’s love and prayers. Especially our PPP family whom I know are eager to participate. InshAllah this is only the beginning - will be able to celebrate in a post Covid world. Please keep SMBB and our family in your prayers," she wrote.

A photo posted by Instagram (@instagram) on

Bakhtawar's beau is Mahmood Choudhry, "the son of Mohammad Younas and Begum Suraiya Choudhry who hail from the old town of Lahore, Pakistan. Mr Younas migrated to the United Arab Emirates in 1973 where through hard-work he established businesses in the construction and transport industry," the formal announcement read.

The party also revealed that Mahmood was the last born of 5 siblings and born in the city of Abu Dhabi on July 28, 1988 (which makes him 32 years old).

"He completed his primary schooling in Abu Dhabi and secondary schooling in the United Kingdom. Mahmood further went on to study law at the University of Durham."

Choudhry's country of residence will remain the UAE, where he runs businesses in construction, finance and tech, the party confirmed.

Comments

MG Nov 27, 2020 03:27pm
For a girl, mother's absence on this kind of days is really painful
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bhaRAT© Nov 27, 2020 03:33pm
Congratulations. A negative Covid-19 test required for all who attend this engagement party but no concern for masses who attend PDM Jalsas. Utterly disgraceful.
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M. Emad Nov 27, 2020 03:48pm
. . . her brother, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has contracted coronavirus, is self-isolating . . .
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Imtiaz Ali Khan Nov 27, 2020 04:34pm
Come and see Sindh you will see how emotional people get when they don't have basic necessitates of life and it is down right painful to see this as a human and as a Sindhi specially. Zardari party is perhaps the most corrupt party of Pakistan without a shadow of a doubt pray that they get rooted out of my Sindh soon, no more Sindhi card enough with all this.
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Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad Nov 27, 2020 04:37pm
Welcome to the global club and the transnational clubhouse. As always, keep it up and hang on tough.
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well-wisher Nov 27, 2020 08:32pm
Best of luck Bakhtawar on your engagement ceremony. Yes it is an emotional day for not having loved ones around - but life is such and be grateful. A day also to remember the needy and helpless.
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BrownFlower Nov 27, 2020 10:40pm
When is Bilawal getting hitched?
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BrownFlower Nov 27, 2020 10:41pm
Both look awesome. Congrats.
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Munawar Ali Nov 27, 2020 10:42pm
Look back BB is with U forever!!!
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MAB Nov 27, 2020 10:49pm
Good for you Bakhtawar - the irony of marrying a person your grandfather deemed unsuitable to be called Muslim. Hope we can change the laws to treat minorities with dignity.
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saimahasannaqvi Nov 27, 2020 11:01pm
yes i like all the pictures, Allaha always keep happy .
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Syed Ghazanfar Abbas Nov 27, 2020 11:10pm
Congratulations. A very long over due happy moment on her family. Stay blessed and happy. Ameen
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Taj Ahmad - Karachi Nov 27, 2020 11:50pm
Congratulations to Bhutto-Zardari family, nice looking couple, good luck and lots of happiness to both new couple.
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Abbas Khan Nov 28, 2020 12:45am
Congratulation to both. ! I admire her Grand Father and her mother, both were very highly intelligent and loved Pakistan. Tell your brother to stay away from politics.
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Syed A. Mateen Nov 28, 2020 01:04am
Bakhtawar’s engagement was indeed an emotional day due to one reason that Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed) was not there to attend the occasion. Being a parent I can imagine that how much every one including Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari and Asifa Bhutto Zardari must have missed their mother. Life moves on but without the presence of any of the parent, no matter how important the event and the occasion was, one could not enjoy when some one is missing among the immediate family members. Apart from politics, no matter who belongs to which political party, a human being will always miss their near and dear ones. Bakhtawar is equivalent to my own daughter and my prayers are that the couple should spend a peaceful and happy life after they get married. The social media should not speculate any thing about the newly wedded couple and leave them alone. After Bakhtawar will be gone from Bilawal House, Asifa would be left alone to look after her father and brother.
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Thinker Nov 28, 2020 01:23am
Again the people of Pakistan are celebrating family politics of PPP that delivered them nothing but poverty, disgrace and corruption.
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Sarah Khan Nov 28, 2020 02:06am
enjoy from your palace
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Mani Nov 28, 2020 03:14am
BBs portrait everywhere is getting a bit over-the-top. And why is this engagement being given so much coverage? How does it affect Pakistan in any way? ICYMI not many care for PPP any more.
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Taj Ahmad Nov 28, 2020 03:41am
@well-wisher Very well said. Life must go on with or without loved ones.
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Pan Cheng Nov 28, 2020 05:33am
Thousands sick in Sind and Pakistan, hundreds dead, millions out of job but these Zardaris celeberate and happy on the demise of the poor and needy.. Please vote again for PPP. that what you deserve to keep these leaders in power. Shame on the voters
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Aysha Nov 28, 2020 05:36am
@bhaRAT© Yes and corona spreads when PDM announce jalsas not when TLP and PTI have them.
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Sab Se Pehle Pakistan Nov 28, 2020 06:50am
Urban Sindh's tax payers hard earned money wisely used. Congratulations and best wishes for the future.
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Malik Nov 28, 2020 07:26am
Congrats and best of luck.
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Anonymouseee Nov 28, 2020 11:00am
How are they still calling themselves Bhutto? Aren’t they all Zardari’s?
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Parvez Nov 28, 2020 12:23pm
Lovely picture ....... the couple look radiant. Wish them well.
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Thunderbird Nov 28, 2020 02:57pm
Makes a good reading of rich and famous lifestyle magazine.
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Khan Nov 28, 2020 03:08pm
@bhaRAT© Kabhi khush na hona.
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Nh Nov 28, 2020 03:58pm
How come so much land around bilawal house is now part of it?? Anyone answer that?
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bhaRAT© Nov 28, 2020 05:41pm
@Aysha Why make it worse? Two wrongs don't make a right!!
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Gulfraz Awan Nov 28, 2020 08:43pm
Congratulations
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Gulfraz Awan Nov 28, 2020 08:44pm
Congratulations
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Chrís Dăn Nov 28, 2020 08:46pm
@Pan Cheng indeed.
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NK Nov 28, 2020 08:47pm
The only thing I like about the Zardari family is how gracefully the girls dress themselves.
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Ekramul Majid Nov 28, 2020 08:55pm
@M. Emad The point being?
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Ekramul Majid Nov 28, 2020 08:55pm
Who really cares?
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AZAM AKBAR Nov 29, 2020 03:28am
@Abbas Khan Mr. Abbas Khan, " Congratulation to both. ! I admire her Grand Father and her mother, both were very highly intelligent and loved Pakistan. Tell your brother to stay away from politics. " Grandfather, Mr. (late) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto broke Pakistan because he was a power hungry person and mother Ms. (late) Benazir Zardari was convicted by the Swiss court on corruptions because she was corrupt to the core and bone.
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AZAM AKBAR Nov 29, 2020 03:33am
@Imtiaz Ali Khan Mr. Imtiaz Ali Khan, You are 100% right. Sindh-Card is loosing its effectiveness gradually because the inhabitants of the rural areas of Sindh are realising that they have been misused in the name of Sindh-Card and they are without the basic necessities, water, education, health service, etc., by the most corrupt small regional political party PPP for decades.
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AZAM AKBAR Nov 29, 2020 03:40am
@Aysha Ms. Aysha, Correct.
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ambreen Nov 29, 2020 08:15am
Wished these so called leaders were as concerned abt the masses catching corona at their rallies but then shabash to the stupid people who risk their lives for them :)
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Saqlain Raza Nov 29, 2020 11:40am
Congratulations from deep heart ❣️
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Ifti Malik Nov 30, 2020 12:06am
Congratulations and many good wishes to Miss Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari and her fiance.
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