Fatima Bhutto
| Fatima Bhutto فاطمہ بھٹو |
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| Born |
Fatima Bhutto 29 May 1982 Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Residence | Karachi, Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Alma mater |
Barnard College SOAS, University of London |
| Occupation | Writer, columnist, journalist |
| Relatives | Bhutto family |
| Website | http://www.fatimabhutto.com/ |
Fatima Murtaza Bhutto (Urdu: فاطمہ مُرتضیٰ بھُٹّو; born 29 May 1982) is a Pakistani poet and writer. Born in Kabul, she is the granddaughter of Prime Minister Zulfikar, niece of Prime Minister Benazir and the daughter of Murtaza, all three of whom were murdered or executed.
Bhutto was raised in Syria and Karachi and received her B.A from Barnard College followed by an M.A from SOAS where she wrote her dissertation on the resistance movement in Pakistan. Bhutto came to public note at the age of 15 after the publication of her first book, a collection of poems, Whispers of the Desert, while her most notable work is her 2010 non-fiction book Songs of Blood and Sword. Bhutto has written for The News, New York Times, among others.
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 to be her real mother and political mentor. She is the granddaughter of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, niece of Benazir Bhutto, Shahnawaz Bhutto and Sanam Bhutto, and cousin of Bilawal Zardari, Bakhtawar Zardari and Asifa Zardari.
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