Ghinwa Bhutto

Ghinwa Bhutto (Urdu: غنویٰ بھٹو‎, Sindhi: غنوا ڀٽو‎, Arabic: غنوة بوتو‎‎; born Ghinwa Itoui) is a politician and the widow of Murtaza Bhutto. She is also the sister-in-law of the late Benazir Bhutto. She is of Lebanese-Syrian origin and is the second wife of Murtaza Bhutto and stepmother of Fatima Bhutto.

Murtaza Bhutto and his daughter Fatima spent time in exile in Syria, where Murtaza first met Ghinwa. Ghinwa had fled from the Lebanese Civil War back home and migrated to Syria, where she used to give ballet classes in the basement of a church. Fatima was one of her students. Murtaza and Ghinwa would later marry in 1989.

Ghinwa has been estranged from the powerful Bhutto family ever since she accused Benazir and her husband Asif Ali Zardari of conspiracy to the 1996 murder of Mir Murtaza. She also accused Benazir and Zardari of corruption. Zardari was arrested as a suspect in the murder of Murtaza, he was later released due to lack of evidence. Her husband's killers were never brought to justice.

In 1997, Ghinwa staked claim to the Bhutto political legacy. She formed PPP-SB and became the chairperson of that and ran for election in Larkana in 3 Feb 1997. Benazir convinced her mother Nusrat Bhutto, then president of the Pakistan Peoples Party, to run against her. Though her opponent suffered from Alzheimer's disease, Ghinwa was defeated.

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