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Article: BHUTTO FAMILY CURSE SHOWS NO SIGN OF ENDING.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 25, 1996
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The only time I met Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's martyred prime minister, he quoted Shakespeare to me. But he was the first of the Bhuttos to die, hanged by the usurping dictator Gen. Zia ul-Haq on trumped-up murder charges in 1979, so he was spared full knowledge of what a bloody Shakespearean tragedy his own family's history would become.
The latest episode of the tragedy began Friday, when the late prime minister's son, Murtaza Bhutto, was killed by eight police bullets outside his home in the wealthy Clifton Road district of Karachi. He was 42.
Murtaza's sister, Benazir Bhutto, who has followed in their father's footsteps to become prime minister ...