Word: murtaza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Murtaza's return that sparked an ugly feud over who should inherit the Bhutto legacy. Nusrat drew cheering campaign crowds for Murtaza last fall by holding aloft his two-year-old son and proclaiming the male line as her husband's true heirs...
...66th anniversary of the birth of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat's husband, Benazir's father and Pakistan's Prime Minister before General Zia had him hanged in 1979. The rift is not just mother against daughter, but also brother against sister. Accused of terrorism by the Zia regime, Murtaza Bhutto, 39, Nusrat's eldest son, has been in jail since November. After 16 years of exile abroad, he came home to claim a provincial seat he had won in absentia in the same elections that brought his older sister to power for the second time in less than five years...
Benazir has spurned her mother's entreaties to get the charges against Murtaza dismissed. She has not even visited her sibling in prison. Last month she talked the central executive committee of the Pakistan People's Party, founded by her father, into dropping her mother from her post as party chairperson...
...violent end of last week's demonstration, which left one person dead and 20 wounded, has sullied an otherwise promising start to Bhutto's second term. With the government and party machinery firmly in her control, no one expects any serious challenges to her rule. That is, until Murtaza gets out of jail. Even on bail, he will, by local Muslim tradition, automatically assume the leadership of the vast Bhutto clan. With his mother's help and the support of Pakistan's male- dominated Muslim society, brother Murtaza will be stalking his sister throughout her days in power...