KARACHI – Fatima Bhutto, an author and the granddaughter of former prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and her husband Graham were blessed with a baby boy.
“We are delighted to announce the birth of Mir Murtaza Byra,” she wrote in an Instagram post while requesting people to keep them in their prayers.
In a detailed note, she said: “Graham and I are so happy to share the news of the birth of our baby boy. We wanted to give our son a name that would bestow him with courage and kindness as he makes his way through the world. I wanted a name that would act as an inspiration to him in his life but also one that would cloak him in love and strength, a name that he could wear with the knowledge that it was given to him from deep within his mother’s heart and soul to protect him throughout his life, to give him in equal measure both grace and fearlessness, a sense of his homeland and of joy”.
While talking about his son’s name, she wrote: “Every time I thought of what name might do that, I always came back to my beloved father’s name”.
Fatima Bhutto and Graham (Gibran) tied the knot in April last year.
Born in Kabul in 1982, Fatima is the daughter of Murtaza Bhutto — the son of Pakistan People’s Party’s founder, and an elected member of parliament — who was killed by the police forces in 1996 in Karachi during the premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto.
Graduating from Columbia University in 2004, Fatima has a major in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2005 with a Master in South Asian Government and Politics. She has authored several books including Whispers of the Desert in 1997, and 8.50 a.m. 8 October 2005, Songs of Blood and Sword in 2010, and her recent book New Kings of the World: The Rise and Rise of Eastern Pop Culture. Bhutto’s works have appeared in the New Statesman, Daily Beast, Guardian, and The Caravan Magazine.
