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The family converted to Islam centuries ago and migrated southwest to the area near Larkana, in present-day Pakistan, along with their livestock. [2] Mitho Khan Bhutto, an ancestor of the family, was the first to settle in the region. [2] However, it was his descendant, Sardar Pirbuksh Bhutto, who expanded the family's landholdings. [2]
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto belonged to a Sindhi Rajput family; Owen Bennett-Jones writes that the family traces its ancestry back to a 9th-century Rajput prince of the Bhati clan who ruled the town of Tanot (in current-day Rajasthan, India), Bhutto's ancestors later appearing in different Rajasthani chronicles in prominent roles, the family converting ...
During her second term, Benazir Bhutto's relations with the Pakistan Armed Forces took a different and pro-Bhutto approach, when she carefully appointed General Abdul Waheed Kakar as the Chief of Army Staff. General Abdul Waheed was an uptight, strict, and a professional officer with a view of Westernised democracy.
The Bhutto family mausoleum is situated at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan. The mazar contains the graves of the Bhutto family, and is the burial place of Zulfikar, Murtaza, Shahnawaz, Nusrat, [1] and Benazir Bhutto. [2] [3] Every year on the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's death, large crowds gather at the site. [4]
Bhutto (Sindhi: ڀُٽو ) is a Sindhi clan [1] [2] found in Sindh, Pakistan.The Bhuttos along with Bhattis and other subclans are said to linked to the Bhati Rajputs. [3] They have been settled in Sindh for over two centuries, having migrated to the area from Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, India under Setho Khan Bhatti (Bhutto in Sindhi) in the seventeenth century.According to other authors, the ...
Murtaza Bhutto, elder son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the brother of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto. He was assassinated. Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He died under mysterious circumstances. Ameer Bux Bhutto, son of Mumtaz Bhutto, Vice President of Sindh National Front and ex-Member of Sindh Assembly.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 year ago after being convicted of murder, didn't get a fair trial.
Shah Nawaz Bhutto was born on 8 March 1888 in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in Ratodero Taleka in the Larkana District of the Sind region, within the Bombay Presidency of British India (now in Sindh, Pakistan) into a Shia Muslim family of the Bhutto clan of Rajput to father Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto.