Read Songs Of Blood And Sword: A Daughter'S Memoir Online
Authors: Fatima Bhutto
Murtaza and Della in Greece at the start of their relationship in the late 1970s
Mummy and I outside my school in Damascus
With Wadi in Larkana during my first
trip to Pakistan – I was seven years old
Holding my newborn baby brother, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto jr, in Damascus
Ghinwa and Murtaza before they were married. I was the photographer
At a wedding during my first trip to Larkana I was ceremoniously seated on Ameer Begum’slap, my grandfather’s first wife, who was chatting away pleasantly with my Joonam. Surprisingly, I am the only one who looks uncomfortable
A portrait of Ghinwa and Murtaza taken in court
Murtaza and Zulfi, also photographed during a court recess
Asif and Benazir at their Mendhi wedding celebration held at 70 Clifton, 1987
Murtaza speaking to a gathering in the North West Frontier Province in 1994
Murtaza on a train journey from Karachi to the interior of Sindh after his release from jail, 1994. Suhail Sethi sits next to him
Murtaza’s train journey to Larkana was met with crowds at nearly every station. He spoke at each and every stop
Nusrat and Ghinwa visiting the hospital bed of Shahid Rind at Larkana Civil hospital 6 January,1994. Rind was shot by the police in the 5 January police attack on Al Murtaza and later died from his injuries
The six men who were killed alongside Murtaza:
Sattar Rajpar, Rahim Brohi, Sajjad Haider with his son Shahnawaz, Wajahat Jokhio, Ashiq Jatoi with his daughter Sabeen and Yar Mohammed Baloch