Benazir Bhutto's father:
Benazir Bhutto's father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was removed from office following a military coup in 1977 led by the then military chief General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who imposed martial law but promised to hold elections within three months. But later, instead of fulfilling the promise of holding general elections, General Zia charged Mr. Bhutto with conspiring to murder the father of dissident politician Ahmed Raza Kasuri. Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was sentenced to death by the martial law court.
Despite the accusation being "widely doubted by the public", and despite many clemency appeals from foreign leaders, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged on 4 April 1979. Appeals for clemency were dismissed by acting President General Zia. Benazir Bhutto and her mother were held in a "police camp" until the end of May, after the execution.
Begum Nusrat Bhutto:
Nusrat Bhutto was born on March 23, 1929, in Esfahan, Iran . She comes from the wealthy Hariri Esfahani family in Esfahan, Iran. Nusrat Bhutto is of Kurdish descent,[2][3] despite the fact of her family originating from the Kurdistan province in Iran[4] some claim that the Kurdish connection only comes from her grandmother who had married into the Hariri family.[1] Nusrat Bhutto is the daughter of a wealthy Iranian businessman who settled in Karachi, Pakistan.[1] Nusrat met Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Karachi where they got married on September 8, 1951.[5] She was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's second marriage, and they had four children together, three of whom she has outlived.
Shahnawaz Bhutto:
Shahnawaz Bhutto (1958 � 1985) was the son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (President/Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1971 to 1977) and Begum Nusrat Bhutto. Shahnawaz Bhutto was the youngest of Bhutto�s four children. Shahnawaz was schooled in Pakistan and later travelled abroad to complete his higher education. Shahnawaz was studying in Switzerland when Zia ul Haq's military regime executed his father in 1979. Prior to the execution, Shahnawaz and his elder brother Murtaza Bhutto had embarked on an international campaign to save their father's life, but it was to no avail. The two brothers continued to resist the military abrogation of the 1973 constitution in exile.
Both brothers Murtaza Bhutto and Shahnawaz Bhutto married two Pashto sisters from the royal Afghani family. After the alleged involvement of Shahnawaz's wife Rehana in the murder of Shahnawaz, Murtaza Bhutto divorced his wife.
On July 18, 1985, the 27 year old Shahnawaz was found dead in Nice, France. He died under mysterious circumstances, and the Bhutto family firmly believed he was poisoned. No one was brought to trial for murder, but Shahnawaz's wife Rehana was considered a suspect by the French authorities and remained in their custody for some time. She was found not guilty and later allowed to travel, and went to the United States. Pakistani media, which was under Zia's control, attributed his death to drug and alcohol abuse.
Shahnawaz is believed to have helped organize a group dedicated to overthrowing the regime of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, through links to Al-Zulfiqar, increasingly active in Pakistan at that time.
The funeral of Shahnawaz turned into a defiant show of opposition to Zia's military rule. It was held in a Larkana sports stadium, attended by an estimated 25,000 people.Shahnawaz's daughter Sassi Bhutto lives with her mother in the United States.
Sanam Bhutto:
Sanam Bhutto (born 1957) is the younger sister of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. She is the only surviving child of the late former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Begum Nusrat Bhutto. She has been suggested as a potential leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party to replace her assassinated sister Benazir.[1] However, media sources indicate that Sanam Bhutto is not interested in a career in politics. Sanam was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Karachi. She later attended Harvard University near Boston like her sister Benazir Bhutto. She was married to Nasir Hussain, the son of a 1940s Diwan of the former princely state of Junagarh like her grandfather Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto. However, the couple is now divorced. According to the 30 July 2003 Sentencing Order passed by the Swiss investigating magistrate on the SGS/Cotecna cases against Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari of alleged corruption, Nasir Hussain's company, Nassam Overseas Inc., was one of the three offshore companies that were to receive "commissions" on the award of a pre-shipment inspection contract by SGS/Cotecna.[3] According to some estimates between September 1994, when SGS/Cotecna were awarded the contract, and September 1997 Nasir Husain's Nassam Overseas Inc. had received $3.81 million in commissions.[4] Sanam lives in London with her two children,[1] Shahmir Hussain and Azadeh.[5] As the last surviving offspring of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Sanam Bhutto has refrained from taking part in Pakistani politics, even though there had been demands within the Pakistan Peoples Party for her to head the party after Benazir Bhutto's assassination.