Fatima Bhutto Biography
Fatima Bhutto is a Pakistani writer.Her most notable work is her 2010 non-fiction book about her family, Songs of Blood and Sword. Bhutto has written for The News, The Guardian among others.
Fatima Bhutto Age
She was born on 29 May 1982 in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is 36 years old as of 2018.
fatima bhuttoFatima Bhutto Family
She was born in Kabul and raised in Syria and Karachi. She was born to Murtaza Bhutto and Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto. Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto was an Afghan and the daughter of Afghanistan’s former foreign affairs official in Kabul. Murtaza Bhutto was in exile during the military regime of general Zia-ul-Haq. Murtaza Bhutto and Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto divorced when she was three years old and her father took Bhutto with him moving from country to country and she grew up effectively stateless. Her father met Ghinwa Bhutto and they married. Ghinwa Bhutto was a Lebanese ballet teacher in 1989 during his exile in Syria.
Bhutto considers Ghinwa as her real mother. She is the granddaughter of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, an Iranian Kurd, niece of Benazir Bhutto. Her father was killed by the police in 1996 in Karachi during the premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto. Her biological mother Fauzia Fasihudin unsuccessfully tried to gain parental custody of Bhutto. She lives with her stepmother and her half-brother Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Jr. in Old Clifton, Karachi.
She is also the niece of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and granddaughter of former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. She is a critic of her aunt Benazir Bhutto.
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She is married to Asif Ali Zardari, whom she accused of being involved in her father’s murder.
Fatima Bhutto Education
Bhutto pursued her secondary education at the Karachi American School. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University in New York, U.S.A with a B.A. degree in 2004, where she majored in Middle Eastern and Asian languages and cultures. She received her M.A in South Asian Studies from the SOAS, University of London in 2005, there she wrote her dissertation on the resistance movement in Pakistan.
Fatima Bhutto Career
In 1998, when she was 15 years old, Bhutto published her first book named Whispers of The Desert. Her second book 8.50 a.m. 8 October 2005 marks the moment of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake; it records accounts of those affected. In 2010 her family memoir Songs of Blood and Sword was published with acclaim. In the book Bhutto accuses her aunt Benazir and her husband Asif Zardari for killing her father Murtaza. The book got mixed to negative review from critics for being biased on history of her family. Several family members have accused her of falsifying information. In November 2013, her first fictional novel The Shadow Of The Crescent Moon published. The book had long-listed in 2014 for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. In 2015 Bhutto’s short story titled Democracy, an e-book, under Penguin Books was released. Her latest novel The Runaways is published by Penguin Viking.
Following the assassination of her aunt, Benazir Bhutto, there was speculation over her entrance into politics. In an interview, she has stated that for now she prefers to remain active through her activism and writing, rather than through elected office and that she has to “rule a political career out entirely because of the effect of dynasties on Pakistan”, referring to the Bhutto family dynasty and its ties to Pakistani politics. Although Bhutto is politically active, she is not affiliated with any political party.
Fatima Bhutto News
Those with no love for ZAB’s politics will give speeches in his honor: Fatima Bhutto
Published on April 4, 2019
KARACHI: Those with no love or fidelity for Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s politics will give speeches in his honor, said Fatima Bhutto, the granddaughter of the former prime minister as the PPP marks his 40th death anniversary.
Fatima Bhutto is the daughter of Murtaza Bhutto who was assassinated in Karachi in 1996.
“The handmaidens of his death will lay petals on his grave,” the renowned author wrote on Twitter without naming anyone.
The Pakistan People’s Party leadership including chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari are in Larkana’s Garhi Khuda Bakhs to pay homage to the PPP founder who was hanged on April 4,1979.
The PPP is all set to hold a rally outside the Bhuttos’ burial place where the party chairman and other leaders would deliver speeches.
The PPP leaders have long used the occasion to gather party loyalists who came from across the country to pay tribute to the former prime minister.
Adopted From www.thenews.com.pk
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