KARACHI: Two grandchildren of late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto have urged Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to help them get their ailing grandmother — Begum Nusrat Bhutto — back to Pakistan so that she could get proper care — medically as well emotionally and psychologically...
In a letter to the chief justice, Fatima Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Junior) have said that their seriously sick grandmother was being held “incommunicado” in Dubai and was at the mercy of maids.
She was not getting proper medical care and, therefore, the state authorities be directed to bring her to Pakistan and reunite with them so that she could live with family and get the much-needed emotional support, besides the necessary medical treatment. They said that soon after the 1996 murder of their father — Mir Murtaza Bhutto — their aunt Benazir Bhutto had come to take Begum Bhutto “for what she promised would be a short trip to New York to attend UN General Assembly session”. Fatima Bhutto said she “argued with my late aunt that it was not safe for my grandmother to be unsettled as she had begun only recently to suffer the decline of Alzheimer’s and my father’s murder had strongly traumatised her”.
Since then, she said, they had never, except for a brief 45-minute meeting, met her and her health was continuously deteriorating. The letter said: “My grandmother, no longer under her daughter’s care, is now being held incommunicado by the Zardaris in Dubai. It is this hold on my grandmother that the Zardaris have that that has dragged her good name into their corruption cases such as the Swiss SGS/Cotecna case which have placed her is the horrific position of being listed as a beneficiary of the criminal and unconstitutional NRO.” Pointing out that none of Begum Bhutto’s direct family members, her daughter and grandchildren all living in London, were with her, they urged the chief justice to direct the authorities so that she could be brought back here to be reunited with family and live with them in her house where she had been living earlier with her husband Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and then her son and his family.
She was not getting proper medical care and, therefore, the state authorities be directed to bring her to Pakistan and reunite with them so that she could live with family and get the much-needed emotional support, besides the necessary medical treatment. They said that soon after the 1996 murder of their father — Mir Murtaza Bhutto — their aunt Benazir Bhutto had come to take Begum Bhutto “for what she promised would be a short trip to New York to attend UN General Assembly session”. Fatima Bhutto said she “argued with my late aunt that it was not safe for my grandmother to be unsettled as she had begun only recently to suffer the decline of Alzheimer’s and my father’s murder had strongly traumatised her”.
Since then, she said, they had never, except for a brief 45-minute meeting, met her and her health was continuously deteriorating. The letter said: “My grandmother, no longer under her daughter’s care, is now being held incommunicado by the Zardaris in Dubai. It is this hold on my grandmother that the Zardaris have that that has dragged her good name into their corruption cases such as the Swiss SGS/Cotecna case which have placed her is the horrific position of being listed as a beneficiary of the criminal and unconstitutional NRO.” Pointing out that none of Begum Bhutto’s direct family members, her daughter and grandchildren all living in London, were with her, they urged the chief justice to direct the authorities so that she could be brought back here to be reunited with family and live with them in her house where she had been living earlier with her husband Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and then her son and his family.
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