In September 1996 a fourteen-year-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless
dressing room shielding her baby brother while shots rang out in the streets
outside the family home in Karachi. This was the evening that her father,
Murtaza, was murdered along with six of his associates.
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.
Songs of Blood and Sword tells the story of the Bhuttos, a family of