Fatima Bhutto (Urdu: ????? ????????; born 29 May 1982) is a Pakistani writer. Born in Kabul, she is daughter of Murtaza Bhutto, 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 and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, whom she accused of being involved in her father's murder.
Bhutto was raised in Syria and Karachi and received her B.A from Barnard College followed by an M.A from SOAS. Her most notable work is her 2010 non-fiction book about her family, Songs of Blood and Sword. Bhutto has written for The News, New York Times, among others.
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Early life
Family
Bhutto was born on 29 May 1982 to Murtaza Bhutto and an Afghan mother, Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto, the daughter of Afghanistan's former foreign affairs official in Kabul. Her father was in exile during the military regime of general Zia-ul-Haq. Her parents 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, a Lebanese ballet teacher in 1989 during his exile in Syria and they married. 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.
Education
Bhutto received her secondary education at the Karachi American School. She graduated from Barnard College; an affiliated women's college of the Columbia University, with a B.A. degree with a major in Middle Eastern and Asian languages and cultures. She received a master's degree in South Asian Studies from the SOAS, University of London, where she wrote her dissertation on the resistance movement in Pakistan.
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Career
Publications
In 1998, at the age of 15, 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 published. 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 has 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.
Bhutto's upcoming book The Runaways will be published at October, 2018.
Politics
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.
Personal life
About her religious faith, Bhutto said at an interview, that she is not religious and describe herself as a secularist. Though Bhutto has many time defended Islam and supported Muslim women's right to choose their dress.
References
External links
- Official Fatima Bhutto Website
- Fatima Bhutto: Living on the Edge by William Dalrymple for the Times Online, 18 May 2008
- Fatima Bhutto on Her Memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword
- In Conversation: Songs of Corruption: Christian Parenti with Fatima Bhutto, The Brooklyn Rail
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