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A family portrait

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Benazir Bhutto, top right, is seen with her family in July 1978. From left to right are her mother, Nusrat Bhutto, her brother Shahnawaz Bhutto, her father, former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Her brother Murtaza Bhutto is at bottom left and her sister Sanam Bhutto is at bottom right. (AP Photo)

In 1979 Zulfikar Ali was the the victim of a judicial murder (hanging after conviction by a military court) staged by Muhammad Zia ul Haq, then military dictator of Pakistan. In 1985 Shahnawaz was found dead in his French Riviera apartment in Nice. He and Murtaza had organized an armed opposition to the Zia ul Haq dictatorship from Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. In 1996 Murtaza was shot to death by police in Karachi, a homicide that is still "unsolved".

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