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Fatima Bhutto fears for life

LONDON: Fatima Bhutto, the estranged niece of the slain former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, has told a British newspaper that she fears for her life because of what she called the “politics of revenge and retribution” of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party chairman Asif Ali Zardari.

The 25-year-old journalist and activist who blames Mr. Zardari for her father Murtaza Bhutto’s murder in 1996, when Benazir was Prime Minister, said she was “anxious” about her safety.

“After all this man knows no limits. He has a record. He has, as they say, form. And he is now clearly indulging in the politics of revenge and retribution. It’s nothing new — it’s how he has always been,” she told The Sunday Times.

Ms. Bhutto was 12 when her father was killed barely yards from his house.

“In Pakistan we live with this historical amnesia. Such are the difficulties of the present that there is a strong urge to forget those of the past. But there are those of us who are not willing to forget…I am not going to give up this struggle.

“I am not going to stand down quietly. This is bigger than us — this is about justice. I will continue to do all I can to stand between Asif and a clean record,” she said.

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