Background
Nusrat Bhutto was born on March 23, 1929, in Esfahan, Iran . She comes from the wealthy Hariri Esfahani family in Esfahan, Iran. Nusrat Bhutto is of Kurdish descent, despite the fact of her family originating from the Kurdistan province in Iran some claim that the Kurdish connection only comes from her grandmother who had married into the Hariri family. Nusrat Bhutto is the daughter of a wealthy Iranian businessman who settled in Karachi, Pakistan. Nusrat met Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Karachi where they got married on September 8, 1951. She was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's second marriage, and they had four children together, three of whom she has outlived.
Family and Political Career
As first lady from 1973–1977, Begum Nusrat Bhutto functioned as a political hostess and accompanied her husband on a number of overseas visits. In 1979, after the trial and execution of her husband, she succeeded her husband as leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party as chairman for life. In 1982, ill with cancer, she was given permission to leave the country by the military government of General Zia Ul Haq for medical treatment in London at which point her daughter, Benazir Bhutto, became acting leader of the party and by 1984 Benazir became party chairman.
After returning to Pakistan in the late 1980s, she served several terms as a Member of Parliament to the National Assembly from the family constituency of Larkana in Sindh. Also, during the administrations of her daughter Benazir, she became a cabinet minister and Deputy Prime Minister. In the 1990s, she and Benazir became estranged when Nusrat took the side of her son Murtaza during a family dispute, but later reconciled after Murtaza's murder.
She currently resides with her daughter's family in Dubai, and suffers from the combined effects of a stroke and Alzheimer's Disease.
All about PPP:
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Benazir Bhutto
- Pakistan Peoples Party
- Asif Ali Zardari
- President of Pakistan
- Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Yousaf Raza Gillani
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