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Mar 23, 1929 Isfahan, Isfahan Province, Iran Died on 23 Oct 2011 (aged 82)
Iranian-born Pakistani politician
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About Nusrat Bhutto
- Begum Nusrat Bhutto (née Ispahani; Kurdish: ??????? ?????; Sindhi: ???? ????; Urdu: ???? ?????; 23 March 1929 – 23 October 2011) was an Pakistani Iranian-Kurdish public figure who served as Spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan between 1971 until the 1977 coup, and as a senior member of the federal cabinet between 1988 and 1990. Born in Isfahan to a family of Kurdish descent, the family had settled in Bombay before moving to Karachi after the Partition of India.
- Ispahani joined a paramilitary women's force in 1950, but left a year later when she married Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
- She moved to Oxfordshire with her husband who then was pursuing his legal education.
- She returned to Pakistan alongside Bhutto who went on to serve as the Foreign Minister.
- After her husband founded Pakistan Peoples Party, Ispahani worked to lead party's women’s wing.After Bhutto was elected as the Prime Minister in 1971, Ispahani became the First Lady of Pakistan and remained so until her husband's removal in 1977.
- She immediately succeeded her husband as the leader of the Peoples Party, and, while under house arrest, fought an unsuccessful legal battle to prevent her husband's execution.
- After Bhutto's execution, Ispahani, along with her children, went into exile to London, from where in 1981 she co-founded the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, a nonviolent opposition to Zia's regime.Ispahani returned to Pakistan in 1988, as the party's national leader she campaigned for her daughter, Benazir's, election to the premiership.
- After the People's Party's victory in 1988, she joined Benazir's cabinet as a minister without portfolio while representing Larkana District in the National Assembly.
- She remained in the cabinet until Benazir's government was dismissed in 1990.
- Afterwards, during a family dispute between her son, Murtaza, and her daughter, Benazir, Ispahani favoured Murtaza leading Benazir to sack Ispahani as the party leader.
- Ispahani stopped talking to the media and refrained from political engagements after the assassination of her son Murtaza in 1996 during a police encounter, during her daughter's second government.Ispahani moved to Dubai in 1996, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, she was kept out of public eye's by Benazir, until she made headlines in 23 October 2011 when she died.
- Ispahani's body was flown to Pakistan, and was buried next to the grave of her husband Zulfikar at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh two days later.
- In Pakistan, Ispahani is remembered for her contribution to empowerment of women in Pakistan and for advocating for democracy in Pakistan, for which she is dubbed as "Madar-e-Jamhooriat" (English "Mother of Democracy"), a title she was honored with by the parliament following her death.
