Nusrat Bhutto

Begum Nusrat Bhutto (Sindhi: بیگم نصرت ڀھٽو, Urdu: بیگم نصرت بھٹو) (born March 23, 1929) is an Iranian-Pakistani who was the former First Lady of Pakistan and widow of former Prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. She became her husband's successor as the chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from 1979-1983. She is also the mother of the late PPP chairman and former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto.

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. 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...
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