Bhutto Dynasti

Source: Times Online

19 year-old Oxford undergraduate, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Benazir Bhutto’s oldest son, has been named to succeed her as the family’s Pakistan People’s Party (Shakil Adil/AP)

Benazir Bhutto, daughter of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. She served twice as the prime minister of pakistan and was the first woman in the whole muslim world, elected as prime minister. She was assassinated on 27th December, 2007 while returning from her election campaign at Liaqat Baagh, Rawalpindi.

Bilawal’s grandfather and Ms Bhutto’s father, the former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founded the PPP in 1967. He was executed by hanging in 1979 (AP)

Zulfikar’s wife, Begum Nusrat Bhutto, took over the party after his death, but soon ceded control to her daughter. She has stayed out of the limelight in recent years due to a battle with Alzheimer’s (Muzammil Pasha/Reuters)

Ms Bhutto had three children, who live mostly in Dubai. Asifa, 14, is the youngest (B.K. Bangash/AP)

Bakhtawar, 17, is Ms Bhutto’s elder daughter (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty)

Bilawal, Bukhtakar, and Asifa’s father, Asif Ali Zardari, will take over the running of the PPP until Bilawal completes his philosophy, politics and economics degree at Oxford (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)

Fatima Bhutto, Ms Bhutto’s 25 year-old niece, is a newspaper columnist and was always one of her harshest critics (Paul Rogers)

Fatima lives with her mother, Ghinwa Bhutto, who is estranged from her in-laws and runs her own faction of the PPP. Ghinwa blames Ms Bhutto for the death of her husband, Murtaza Bhutto (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty)

Murtaza, Ms Bhutto’s younger brother, was killed in a police shootout in 1996, while Ms Bhutto was Prime Minister. Her youngest brother, Shahnawaz Bhutto, died in suspicious circumstances in France 11 years earlier (Reuters)

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Junior, 18, is Murtaza’s second child after Fatima, and the nephew of Ms Bhutto (Shakil Adil/AP)

Sanam Bhutto, 50, is Ms Bhutto’s younger sister and the only remaining child of Zulfikar Ali and Nusrat Bhutto. She is based in London and claims she has no interest in politics (Zahid Hussein/Reuters)