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Benazir Bhutto on Hospital Bed - Exclusive Video

February 16th, 2008 jasmine · 2 Comments
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Benazir Bhutto lying on hospital bed moments after being brought to the hospital after the shooting - Exclusive video
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KARACHI: MQM sets eyes on 18 Out Of 20 NA seats from Karachi

February 15th, 2008 salmanit · 1 Comment
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KARACHI, Feb 7: With the country due to go to the polls on Feb 18, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is eyeing with some confidence 18 national assembly seats out of the total 20 available in Karachi, as compared to the 12 national assembly seats the party bagged in the 2002 elections. Nevertheless, the party […]

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Fatima Bhutto wants end to ‘dynastic’ politics

February 14th, 2008 jasmine · 17 Comments

By Jasmine Rafique
KARACHI, Pakistan– Some of the toughest criticism of Pakistan’s pro-democracy movement comes from an unlikely source: the 25-year-old niece of Benazir Bhutto, who says Pakistani party politics do nothing but support military rule. It’s an environment, she said, her late aunt is partly responsible for.
Fatima Bhutto says she’s not interested in “perpetuating a […]

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Bhutto’s niece wants end to ‘dynastic’ politics

January 25th, 2008 Sana · 6 Comments

Source: CNN
KARACHI, Pakistan (CNN) — Some of the toughest criticism of Pakistan’s pro-democracy movement comes from an unlikely source: the 25-year-old niece of Benazir Bhutto, who says Pakistani party politics do nothing but support military rule. It’s an environment, she said, her late aunt is partly responsible for.
“At this stage, we are in a state […]

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The broken bloodline

January 15th, 2008 Sana · 3 Comments

Source: The Guardian
Fatima Bhutto is Benazir’s niece. The resemblance is striking: the long nose, the headstrong personality, the burning rage about a father’s violent death. Declan Walsh meets the woman who would have been the heir to Benazir’s throne - if it weren’t for the family feud that came between them.

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‘Real’ Bhutto heir denounces family business

January 13th, 2008 Amir Ali · 12 Comments

Jeremy Page in Karachi 
Source : Times 
When Fatima Bhutto heard that her estranged aunt had been assassinated she put aside decades of family feuding to mourn with her relatives at the ancestral home in Pakistan.
Three days later, when Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son, Bilawal, was anointed head of the Pakistan People’s Party, Fatima maintained a respectful silence, […]

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If a Bhutto must run Pakistan, why not Fatima?

January 6th, 2008 Sana · 12 Comments

Source: Telegraph
By Jemima Khan
Death duties are being reformed in this country and the upper limit extended. They don’t come more onerous than those left to Bilawal Bhutto, né Zardari. Many Oxford undergraduates consider a career in politics; few are handed a political party, a new name and the statistical probability that you’re not going to […]

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Farewell to Wadi Bua

January 6th, 2008 Sana · 5 Comments

Source: Tehran Times
By Fatima Bhutto
LARKANA (The News) — My aunt (Benazir Bhutto) and I had a complicated relationship. That is the truth, the sad truth. The last fifteen years were not one we spent as friends or as relatives, that is also the truth. But this week, I too want to remember her differently. I […]

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Fatima Bhutto is the only hope for Pakistan

January 4th, 2008 Samreen · 98 Comments
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Fatima Bhutto, the daughter of murdered Murtaza Bhutto, granddaughter of executed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is a 25-year old journalist, poet and writer who published her first book when she was only 15. She was born in Lebanon in on 29 May, 1982 and received her higher education from Columbia University and the School of […]

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