Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Enough With the ‘Guns, Beards and Poverty’: Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto, in India for the release of her memoir Songs of Blood and Sword about Pakistan’s foremost political family, took a side swipe at journalists as she spoke about Pakistan, her assassinated aunt Benazir Bhutto, and her search to uncover the murky facts surrounding the killing of her adored father. Mir Murtaza Bhutto was slain by police outside her Karachi home in 1996, when she was just 14.

Benazir was empowered greatly by the Western press because she was “‘One of us,’ as it were,” said Bhutto, 27 years old, in conversation with the bard of Mughal India, William Dalrymple in Delhi on April 3. “Oxford, Harvard, beautiful, speaks English, and follows orders. When the IMF says, ‘Sign this,’ she signs. When America said, ‘Do that,’ she did.”

It is no secret that there is little love lost between the young Bhutto and her aunt and uncle, Asif Ali Zardari, now the president of Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto was prime minister at the time her father was killed and the young author holds both Benazir and Zardari ultimately responsible for the death.

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