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THE PRODIGIOUS DAUGHTER FATIMA BHUTTO the Pakistani Political Scion Was in India Recently to Launch Her New Book Songs of Blood and Sword: a Daughter’S Memoir THE PRODIGIOUS DAUGHTER FATIMA BHUTTO The PAKIStaNI politiCal SCION WAS IN INDIA RECENTLY TO LAUNCH HER NEW BOOK SONGS OF BLOOD AND SWORD: A Daughter’S MEMOIR. HELLO! CAUGHT UP WITH THE WRITER FOR A TÊTE-À- TÊte ON heR tumultuouS RelatioNShip With heR family’s HISTORY AND Shahnawaz, Benazir, Murtaza, Sanam, Nusrat and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Northern Pakistan, in one of the HOME COUNTRY last photographs taken of the family all together ou can see the blood in her ink as you flip in 1996, her husband Asif Ali Zardari was semblance of order in Fatima’s young life. London to run her articles, which are highly Ythrough the pages of Fatima Bhutto’s Songs detained for having a part in Murtaza’s Today a highly self-confident journalist, critical of Pakistan’s rulers as if she was an of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir. A hefty assassination. However, no charges were the vivacious and attractive Fatima has independent journalist, which she is not. 450-page campaign for justice, it tells the ever proved for want of evidence, as the wowed newspaper and magazine editors What she is, understandably, is a committed story of a rather traumatic family history. scene of Murtaza’s assassination was wiped in the US, UK and elsewhere for several campaigner out to avenge her father’s Her grandfather, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali clean before police investigators could years with the same ease that Benazir death and, therefore, to damn current Bhutto, was hanged in 1979 by a military arrive. Her father’s killers were never Bhutto charmed them in the past. She is Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (also dictator, General Zia-ul-Haq, after what many brought to justice. When we ask her how no stranger to the West and has a resume her uncle). “You can probably say anything consider to be a kangaroo trial. Her uncle she coped during that period and the not dissimilar to her aunt’s. If Benazir was you like in Pakistan and no one powerful Shahnawaz, 27, was found dead in Nice in subsequent attempts at cover-up by her Harvard, Fatima is Columbia. Benazir: is going to worry because they know you July 1985 under mysterious circumstances, aunt’s then administration, Fatima says, Oxford. Fatima: School of Oriental and can’t do anything about it,” said Fatima in and the Bhutto family firmly believed he had “When you’re faced with violence of that African Studies (SOAS) at the University an interview ahead of the book’s release in been poisoned. No one was brought to trial for the nature, so brutal and so frightening, what of London. If she had fond memories of Delhi. “But if you embarrass them in front murder. Her aunt Benazir too was assassinated in pulled us through that period of fear and moments with her father, unlikely though of their benefactors in the UK and the US, December 2007. Her genealogy – boldly printed on insecurity was a phenomenal amount of it may seem now, she says she’s had a few of that certainly creates a different situation.” the book’s cover – explains it all. It’s clear who is telling love. My mother Ghinwa made sure love those with her aunt Benazir as well. As the While she has denied political ambitions this story and why. A sometimes warm, sometimes chilling was the force we surrounded ourselves first Bhutto child of her generation, she was many times in the past, many in her home account of her violence-scarred family and of Pakistan’s with. She’s a very brave woman, and she often taken for ice cream and read stories country believe she is the rightful heir to a political upheavals over four decades, at its very core the had huge battles ahead of her because she by her aunt. She’s been told she is like dynastic political legacy left behind by her 28-year-old Bhutto’s book is a lyrical ode to the father she wasn’t willing to be silent about injustice.” her aunt several times. But what she once family. However, she avers that she will be loved and lost as a precocious 14-year-old girl. In fact, Ghinwa Bhutto is Fatima’s considered a “compliment” now sounds far from tempted to give politics a shot even Mir Murtaza Bhutto, Benazir’s other brother, was stepmother (her parents split when she was like an “admonishment”. if Pakistan were to one day return to some brutally gunned down near his Karachi home on 20 still an infant), who met her father while Fatima’s success – and she is a capable sort of peaceful politics. Her family history September 1996 in a police gun battle. On 3 December the family was living in exile in Damascus writer – has been to persuade editors of feudal politics notwithstanding, dynasty 2009, a Karachi court acquitted 20 policemen charged and Syria. Ghinwa, a Syrian-Lebanese ranging from Tina Brown’s Daily Beast could still be her destiny. with the killing. After Benazir’s government was dismissed and former ballet dancer, brought some website in the US to the New Statesman in Extracts from the interview: 44 45 HELLO! MAY 2010 HELLO! MAY 2010 ‘I’m a Bhutto. I’m writing about people I lived with, people I loved. It’s an insider’s look at a family and a country. That said, Songs of Blood and Sword isn’t a diary account of this family and country. It’s a journalist’s book’ Wadi Bua was a brave, vulnerable woman on a quest that she risked her life to be a part of. Benazir, the Prime Minister, was a woman enraptured by power who sacrificed her principles to be a part of a corrupt and oppressive system. They are two very different people for me.” You’ve very publicly held your aunt and uncle “morally responsible” for your father’s murder. Asif Zardari is now Pakistan’s president. How did you react to the news when you heard it? “It’s not the first time criminals have come to lead nations, so I can’t say I was shocked, but I was very sad for my country.” Did you ever discuss your father’s murder with her? “Yes. It made her very angry.” When people make comparisons to your aunt, do they trouble you? “I feel it’s cosmetic and very superficial to say, ‘Oh you’re both women, you both lost your fathers, you’re both blah, blah...’ but we are very different people. We have totally different political ideologies, philosophies, backgrounds and lives.” What compelled you to write Songs of Blood and Sword? I read somewhere that you’d promised your father you would One of Fatima’s favourite pictures is this one of her and Murtaza taken in Geneva, where she got a write a book on his life? cast only because her father had one too. Some informal portraits (right) “Yes, that was my last promise to my father, made hours before he was killed.” Can you take us back to your earliest lambasting your aunt after he was killed. – he named the book Whispers of the Desert The cover is quite chilling when it says memory of your father growing up? Tell us about that period. – and ended after his murder. My aunt, ‘granddaughter to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, “He was the light of my young life. It was my “I started writing poetry when I was very when she found out I was speaking to executed 1979’, ‘daughter of Mir Murtaza father who cut my hair and dressed me up young, 11 years old. My father read my Oxford University Press for publishing the Bhutto, assassinated 1996’ and ‘niece to for school and did my homework with me, poems and was very encouraging – he collection, suggested that I let her publish Benazir Bhutto, assassinated 2007’. Was but he was also my best friend. We used to always supported me and really pushed me the poems. I obviously refused.” this gory history lesson intentional? have water fights, play silly pranks on each to keep working on the poetry. It was after Talking about your aunt Benazir, what are “Well, publishers have design teams other, write plays for each other to star in… his death that I wrote some poems about your thoughts on her book Daughter of the and they are the ones who put covers my father created a world filled with love my father’s murder as a way of dealing with East? Did you relate to it at all? together not the authors. But certainly and laughter for me as a child. I was very the pain, as a form of grieving. But Karachi “I was very young when I read it. I related one of the things that stood out to me lucky. One of my favourite pictures, which I at that time, during my aunt’s second term to the fact that this was a woman who when I was starting this book was that included in the book, is a photo of my father in power, was a very frightening place. It watched a state kill her father…but then, it’s once every decade that a member of with his arm in a sling – he had broken it – was a bloody city and my poetry was a way she was able to do the same thing to her this family is killed. They do not die of While in India for her book and I wanted one too so off we marched to of dealing with that fear.” own brother.” natural causes.
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