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  Nusrat Bhutto Information
Begum Bhutto is widely respected in Pakistan for her grace and dignity.
Nusrat Ispahani is an Iranian Kurd by heritage and daughter of a wealthy Iranian businessman who settled in Karachi at the time of India's partition.
Nusrat Bhutto functioned as a political hostess and accompanied her husband on a number of overseas visits.
www.bookrags.com /Nusrat_Bhutto   (217 words)

  
 Nusrat Bhutto - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Begum Nusrat Bhutto, former first lady of Pakistan, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto who is also a former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto fell in love with Nusrat and she came to Pakistan with him.This was his second Marraige.
Nusrat had burried her husband at Larkana crematorium after he was hanged in 1979.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nusrat_Bhutto   (204 words)

  
 Benazir Bhutto - MSN Encarta
Bhutto was educated at Radcliffe College in the United States and at the University of Oxford in England, where she was the first Asian woman to be elected president of the Oxford Union.
The daughter of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1971-1977), she returned to Pakistan in 1977, planning on a career in the foreign service, only days before General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq staged a coup that unseated her father.
Subsequent attempts to oust the ruling party resulted in Bhutto’s deportation to the city of Karāchi in 1992, and she was temporarily banned from entering Islāmābād, the capital of Pakistan.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569025/Benazir_Bhutto.html   (461 words)

  
 Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan
Bhutto was a charismatic leader who charted a foreign policy of nonaligned neutrality for Pakistan in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bhutto attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1949 and received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.
Bhutto insisted that the allegations were false, but the high court in Lahore, packed with Zia's supporters, convicted Bhutto and imposed the death sentence.
www.travel-culture.com /pakistan/bhutto.shtml   (2068 words)

  
 Benazir Bhutto Pakistan peoples Party political leader
Benazir Bhutto is the eldest child of deposed Pakistani premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (who was hanged by the Pakistan's military administration under irregular circumstances) and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, who was of Kurdish-Iranian origin.
Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of a coalition government on December 2, becoming at age thirty five the youngest person and also the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times.
When audiences around the globe hear Benazir Bhutto’s dramatic story of democracy and deposal, they are awed by the tireless strength with which she struggles to bring freedom to the people of her country.
www.travel-culture.com /pakistan/banazir_bhutto.shtml   (1612 words)

  
  bhutto
Benazir Bhutto is a woman with a lot on her plate: three children, a husband in jail on a murder charge, an amnesiac mother -- and 20 corruption cases pending against her.
Bhutto and her husband, Asif Zardari, are involved in 20 court cases for alleged financial irregularities during her rule as prime minister from 1993 to 1996.
Bhutto's mother suffers from loss of memory because of a serious fall after the murder of her only son, the last surviving male of the Bhutto dynasty.
www.dispatch.co.za /1999/01/18/features/BHUTTO.HTM   (956 words)

  
 Nusrat Bhutto: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Bhutto became prime minister in 1988 as a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party, but her government was illegally dismissed in 1990.
Bhutto's father was ousted from office in a 1977 military coup, imprisoned, freed, and imprisoned again, until he was executed by hanging.
Benazir Bhutto' s mother Nusrat Bhutto, herself a former dancer and a former Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, stated that her daughter "Benazir is a habitual liar."
www.zoominfo.com /people/Bhutto_Nusrat_244804293.aspx   (428 words)

  
 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Bhutto’s deployment of the army against Balochi insurgents, though consistent with colonial tradition and practice, was also a signal to the army that the leader would rather use force than political methods to deal with difficult or inconvenient situations.
Bhutto used to pride himself on being a master of timing, but to borrow a phrase from cricket, it was this crucial stroke that he mistimed.
Bhutto wrote back that I should know how busy he was, but he would see the fellow, then added, “But always remember that I am number one in Pakistan.” Bhutto liked me and I always felt at ease with him and his family, especially Begum Nusrat Bhutto, a lady with a golden heart.
www.khalidhasan.net /longerpieces/zulfikar_ali_bhutto.htm   (21684 words)

  
  Bhutto at AllExperts
*Nusrat Bhutto is the wife of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Murtaza, Shahnawaz and Benazir Bhutto.
*Murtaza Bhutto was a son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and brother of Benazir Bhutto.
*Shahnawaz Bhutto was a son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and brother of Benazir Bhutto.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/bh/bhutto.htm   (241 words)

  
  Reference Encyclopedia - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Bhutto criticised the U.S. for providing military aid to India during and after the Sino-Indian War of 1962, which was seen as an abrogation of Pakistan's alliance with the U.S. Bhutto worked to establish stronger relations with the People's Republic of China.
In January 1973, Bhutto orderd the army to suppress a rising insurgency in the province of Balochistan and dismissed the governments in Balochistan and the Northwest Frontier Province.
Bhutto was imprisoned on September 17 and a large number of PPP leaders and activists arrested and disqualified from standing in elections.
referenceencyclopedia.com /?title=Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto   (3541 words)

  
 Benazir Bhutto - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Benazir Bhutto - the eldest child of former Pakistani premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (an ethnic Sindhi) and Begum Nusrat Bhutto (who was of Kurdish-Iranian origin), was born in June 21, 1953 in Karachi.
Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of a coalition government on December 2, becoming the youngest (35 years old) and first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times.
Bhutto is currently (as of September 2004) based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she cares for her children and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and from where she travels around the world giving lectures and keeping in touch with the Party faithful.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/e/n/Benazir_Bhutto_9e79.html   (1005 words)

  
 Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto: Tragic and triumphant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Bhutto shot to prominence as Pakistan's unquestioned political star after inheriting the leadership of her late father's populist party.
Bhutto returned to Pakistan early in 1977 to take up a job with her father's government in the Foreign Office.
Bhutto was placed under house arrest for five years and she spent several months in prison during that time.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/11/05/profile.html   (338 words)

  
 Murtaza Bhutto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Murtaza Bhutto (September 18, 1954 - September 20, 1996) was a Pakistani politician and left-wing radical.
Murtaza Bhutto was a long-time political opponent of his sister, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
Bhutto compaigned as an independent in the 1993 elections, winning a seat in the assembly governing the Sindh province
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murtaza_Bhutto   (223 words)

  
 Benazir Bhutto Biography
Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 21, 1953, the first of four children of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto.
Bhutto decided to work to restore democracy to her country, although she and her mother were often arrested.
Bhutto continues to claim that she is innocent of corruption charges and remains involved in the politics of Pakistan as the leader of a Pakistani political group.
www.notablebiographies.com /Be-Br/Bhutto-Benazir.html   (906 words)

  
 Benazir Bhutto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The charismatic Bhutto was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, only to be deposed 20 months later by the country's military-supported president Ghulam Ishaq Khan who controversially used the Eighth Amendment to dissolve parliament and force an election.
Benazir Bhutto is the eldest child of the deposed Pakistani premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, who was of Kurdish-Iranian origin.
Bhutto was charged with corruption and faced a number of legal proceedings (the resolution of which seems to vary depending on opinion) in Pakistan.
www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Benazir_Bhutto   (1315 words)

  
 Past Tense?
Bhutto and her supporters have cried foul not only on account of her disqualification, but because the papers of Nawaz Sharif, whom the anti-terrorist court had sentenced to life imprisonment for 'hijacking' a plane and endangering the life of innocent passengers, were accepted.
Ghinwa Bhutto, the Lebanese widow of Murtaza Bhutto, was Benazir's chief opponent from NA-204, but the returning officer rejected her papers since, in his view, her graduation degree from Lebanon was not acceptable.
Ghinwa Bhutto, the chairperson of the Shaheed Bhutto faction of the PPP, had submitted a baccalaureate certificate along with her nomination papers, which she claims is equivalent to a Pakistani Bachelors degree; the authorities ruled otherwise.
www.newsline.com.pk /NewsSep2002/cover3sep.htm   (1128 words)

  
 Benazir Bhutto at AllExperts
Benazir Bhutto is the first child of deposed Pakistani premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (who was hanged by the Pakistan's military administration under irregular circumstances) and Begum Nusrat Bhutto, who was of Kurdish-Iranian origin.
Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of a coalition government on December 2, becoming at age thirty five the youngest person and also the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times.
Bhutto is currently (as of September 2004) based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she cares for her children and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, and from where she travels around the world giving lectures and keeping in touch with the Pakistan Peoples Party's supporters.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/be/benazir_bhutto.htm   (1219 words)

  
 Choronogy
Bhutto told the press that talks were not complete failure and that he wanted to continue this process till any understanding in reached.
Bhutto was arrested from 70 Clifton, Karachi and shifted to Lahore in Nawab Mehmood Ahmed Khan's murder case.
Bhutto was asked to leave courtroom because as per court his behavior was not proper.
www.pppusa.org /chronology.htm   (11281 words)

  
 About Bhutto
As a participant at the International Conference in Geneva, Switzerland in March, 1958 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto spoke for mankind with the bold declaration: "The High Seas are free to all." He was the youngest Federal Cabinet member in the history of Pakistan, at the age of 30.
Soon afterwards, Bhutto was arrested and on 18th March, 1978, was sentenced to death in a politically motivated murder trial.
Bhutto's foundation of the PPP was a setback for the reactionary forces in a country long dominated by the Right.
www.bhutto.org /aboutBhutto.htm   (2699 words)

  
 Nusrat Bhutto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Begum Nusrat Bhutto (Urdu: بیگم نصرت بھٹو) former first lady of Pakistan, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto who is also a former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
This was to be Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's 2nd marriage.
As first lady, Begum Nusrat Bhutto functioned as a political hostess and accompanied her husband on a number of overseas visits.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nusrat_Bhutto   (239 words)

  
 Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion
Bhutto had held in the past, the very prestigious office of the foreign minister of Pakistan.
Bhutto was reassuring the American Diplomat that he was not anti-American, as every one assumed he was….He asked the diplomat to inform the government that whatever he said was simply politics and should not be taken as his personal view, and if anything, his personal views were completely opposite.
Bhutto was an unfortunate blend of the good and the evil.
www.pakistanlink.com /Opinion/2002/May/10/08.html   (1244 words)

  
 Nusrat Bhutto’s condition serious -DAWN - Top Stories; March 17, 2003
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Begum Nusrat Bhutto, former first lady and mother of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto, suffered a stroke in Dubai on Sunday and was in a serious condition in a hospital there.
A PPP statement said Begum Bhutto was immediately rushed to a hospital after the stroke and was admitted to an intensive care unit.
Doctors were “struggling to save her life” as Ms Bhutto was by the side of Begum Sahiba at the hospital, the PPP statement said.
www.dawn.com /2003/03/17/top5.htm   (590 words)

  
 History of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
Bhutto discusses her personal life and political career in her autobiography "Daughter of Destiny", which was published in 1989 to favorable reviews.
Bhutto's persecution began in earnest after the dismissal of her father's government in 1977 and his execution in 1979 as she intensified her denunciations of Zia and sought to organize a political movement against him.
Bhutto's stirring oratory, familiar name, and striking appearance helped give her a strong mass appeal, but she had to struggle to wrest real power from the PPP's old-guard leadership, members of which were wary of her gender, youth, and political wisdom.
www.dubaippp.homestead.com /MBBhistory.html   (1571 words)

  
 Islamic Pakistan
The allegations of rigging and official interference with elections in favour of candidates of the ruling party were found to be established by judicial decisions in at least four cases, which displayed a general pattern of official interference.
Bhutto seems to have developed confidence in Zia when they came in contact with each other during the course of the 1973 conspiracy trial, presided over by the General.....Bhutto had felt personally obliged to Zia for convicting the officers who had wanted to topple his government.
Bhutto assured her: "As far as the army is concerned you know that man (pointing to General Zia who was sitting at a distance) - he heads the army.
ghazali.net /book/ch7r.htm   (413 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
After Begum Nusrat Bhuttos petition had been admitted the then Chief Justice Yaqub Ali, one of the judges in the Asma Jilani case, was abruptly retired and General Zia promulgated an order that required the judges of the Court to take a new oath.
In Begum Nusrat Bhutto v Chief of Army Staff the Court rationalised its decision alleging that mass agitation had resulted in a total breakdown in government machinery and took comfort in the fact that the military would go back to the barracks as soon as law and order were restored.
In that case - and in the later case of Bhegum Nusrat Bhutto - the Supreme Court said that it was not possible to apply Kelsens doctrine to recognise a government that was otherwise unlawful.
www.dailynews.lk /2004/07/01/fea08.html   (2763 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Nusrat Bhutto
Nusrat Ispahani is an Iranian Kurd by heritage and daughter of a wealthy Iranian businessman who settled in Karachi at the time of the Subcontinent's partition.
As first lady, Begum Nusrat Bhutto functioned as a political hostess and accompanied her husband on a number of overseas visits.
She was made chairman of the party for life but, later on, her daughter Benazir Bhutto replaced her post.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Nusrat_Bhutto   (262 words)

  
 Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto became the focus for his followers and, from jail, he continued to advise her what to say to the crowds.
Bhutto won re-election in 1993 but was again dismissed from office in 1996 on charges of corruption.
Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on June 21, 1953, the first of four children of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto.
www.lycos.com /info/benazir-bhutto--parties.html   (339 words)

  
 JI: How Democratic was the PPP?
Bhutto was not only an adviser to the new dictator but also acted as his foreign minister and accomplice in the dismemberment of the state that the Quaid had established.
Bhutto had won the elections in West Pakistan and Yahya Khan deputed him to go to China as the head of a delegation of which I was a member.
Bhutto regime in the 70’s, the Zia regime, followed by the Junejo regime, the Benazir Bhutto regime, the Nawaz Sharif regime and the current Bhutto regime, almost 80% of the members would turn out to be the beneficiaries of this national loot.
www.jamaat.org /fifty/pppdemocratic.html   (4666 words)

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