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| Born | Mohamed Iqbal Mauladad (1926-08-30)30 August 1926 Nairobi, Kenya |
| Died | 18 February 1970(1970-02-18) (aged 43) Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi |
| Occupation | Professional Game Hunter |
| Spouse | Riaz Mauladad |
| Children | Ahmed, Zahid, Shahid, Neelam and Frah |
Mohamed Iqbal Mauladad was known to all as "Bali". He was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1926. Bali was a famous big game hunter in the sixties. He was entitled as the white hunter. He won the Shaw and Hunter trophy. Besides hunting he was in motor racing as well. He died in 1970.
Early life
Bali was a professional big game hunter He came from a rich family as his father, Chaudry Mauladad, was a successful civil engineer in East Africa. But rather than join the family business like his brother Basheer, he chose to be a professional hunter in Kenya where he was born and spent his life.
Career
He joined the well-established business, Safariland, after World War Two and was successful as a big game hunter, leading rich clients on safari and killing many game animals, especially elephant. British shooting-brakes were converted into safari cars for these shooting parties and he designed a lightweight rifle rack for these which was made in Naroibi for him and most of the other hunters by the gunsmiths Wali Mohamed & Co.
Though he was from an Asian background, he was admitted to the East African Professional Hunter's Association which was normally only open to white hunters. His closest colleague in the hunting business was another Asian, Ikram Hassan, whose business was African Hunting Safaris, and they hunted elephant together in the coastal regions of Keyna.
He was a large, powerful man, weighing 250 pounds and standing over six feet in his prime. He had a distinctive moustache and a warm, extrovert manner which made him popular with clients and the other hunters. He liked joking and jazz, racehorses and rifles, fast cars and food, women and whisky — his favourite was Johnny Walker Black Label. Besides hunting, he was also an enthusiastic cricket player and rally driver. He took part in the Safari Rally four times and placed once.
Later life
It was the hunting which was most dangerous as he was once mauled by a leopard and finally gored by a buffalo in Kibwezi. The buffalo inflicted injuries which ruptured his liver and, despite treatment and recuperation, complications subsequently led to his death in 1970.
References
- ^ Kenya Gazette, vol. 75 (6): p. 107, 2 Feb 1973
{{citation}}:|page=has extra text (help);|volume=has extra text (help); Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Jan Hemsing (1994), Encounters With Lions, p. 118, ISBN 978-1882458059,
Mohamed Iqbal Mauladad, 'Bali' as he was always called, was a huge man. Born in the mid-1920s he stood six foot one (two meters) in his socks, weighed 250 lbs (113 kilos) and sported a magnificent moustache.
- ^ "Iqbal Mauladad (Bali) (1926-1970)", Africa Hunting, 20 July 2010
- ^ Brian Herne (2001), White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris, Henry Holt & Co, pp. 174–75, 179, 234–35, ISBN 978-0805067361
- "White Hunters' Business Booms", Mansfield News Journal, p. 4, 6 February 1966
- Omar Kureshi (2003), Home to Pakistan, p. 198, ISBN 978-9690018236
External links
- Bali Mauladad – The Legendary Hunter of the 60's - biography