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Fatima Bhutto: My Father’s Assassination

In an exclusive excerpt from her new memoir, Fatima Bhutto recounts the moments leading up to her father’s execution in Pakistan in 1996—and her own reaction to that terrible night.

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File photo dated 1989 shows Pakistani poet and writer Fatima Bhutto (aged 7) posing with her grandmother Begum Nusrat Bhutto (2nd from L), her step mother Ghinwa (1st from L) and her father Murtaza Bhutto, at home in Damascus, Syria. (Newscom)

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