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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Fatima trying to sell Benazir story?




Slain former Pakistani premier Benazir's Bhutto's fiery niece Fatima Bhutto may be sealing a deal shortly to sell a memoir of the Bhutto dynasty.The 25-year-old Fatima, who already has two books to her credit, has reportedly sent a 12-page proposal for the as-yet-untitled family memoir of Pakistan's best known political dynasty to top British literary agent David Godwin.Fatima, who is currently travelling, is likely to meet Godwin, whose clients include Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and William Dalrymple, in London shortly.''It's the story of her family from the inside - she is the most remarkable woman with an extraordinary story to tell,'' Godwin was quoted as saying by the literary website bookseller.com.''Fatima's grandfather (prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto) was executed by Gen Zia-ul-Haq, her uncle was murdered in the south of France, her father (Murtaza Bhutto) was killed outside the house where they lived in Karachi, and last year her aunt Benazir was assassinated,'' Godwin said.Fatima and her stepmother Ghinwa have often hinted that they believe Benazir or her widower Asif Ali Zardari had a hand in the killing of her father Murtaza.Godwin said Fatima ''believes Benazir was the cause of the death of her father and part of the book will be an investigation into whether that was the case''.Though Benazir made several warm references in her autobiography Daughter of the East to her niece, Fatima believes her aunt tried to split the Bhutto family apart.

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