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Fatima Bhutto talks to Aminatta Forna

Songs Of Blood and Sword

Hay Festival 2010, Monday 31 May 2010

In December 2007, Benazir Bhutto, Fatima’s aunt, and the woman she had publicly accused of ordering her father’s murder, was assassinated in Rawalpindi. It was the latest in a long line of tragedies for one of the world’s best-known political dynasties.