Bhutto niece tells Pakistan’s tale through own bloody past FEATURE 05/06/2010

Bhutto niece tells Pakistan’s tale through own bloody past

FEATURE 05/06/2010 NEW DELHI — Her striking looks recall her famous aunt, slain Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto, but Fatima Bhutto, who has penned a memoir of her family’s blood-soaked history, says the resemblance ends there. Fatima is a fierce critic of her charismatic aunt, who twice served as prime minister, claiming she was power hungry and “morally responsible” for the murder of her own brother — the writer’s father — in 1996. The book, Sons of Blood and Sword, is an adulatory — critics say airbrushed — portrayal of Fatima’s father, Murtaza Bhutto, a rival to Benazir in Pakistan’s volatile, faction-ridden politics. “It’s a book I always knew I would write” as a “journey of remembrance of my father,” Fatima told AFP in New Delhi where she was promoting her book. Pakistan’s most famous political dynasty has been dogged by bloodshed since Fatima’s grandfather, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the nation’s first democratically elected leader, was hanged by the dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq in 1979... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100506com7.html

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