Fatima Bhutto Ghinwa as her real mother. She is the granddaughter of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, an Iranian Kurd, niece of Benazir Bhutto. Her father was killed by the police in 1996 in Karachi during the premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto. Her biological mother Fauzia Fasihudin unsuccessfully tried to gain parental custody of Bhutto. She lives with her stepmother and her half-brother Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Jr. in Old Clifton, Karachi. Bhutto received her secondary education at the Karachi American School. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University in New York, U.S.A with a B.A. degree in 2004, where she
Bhutto family to dominate the leadership of the PPP. Benazir's son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari became co-chairperson in 2007. The family has experienced many premature deaths, drawing comparisons to the Kennedy curse: Zulfikar was convicted and executed in 1979; Shahnawaz died in France in 1983; Murtaza was killed in a police encounter during his sister's government in 1996; and Benazir died in an assassination in 2007. ơ According to other authors, the family migrated from Sarsa in Hissar. Bhutto family The Bhutto family () is a prominent political family and among the most powerful families of Pakistan, based in the province of Sindh.