Pakistani author and writer Fatima Bhutto has remembered her father Mir Murtaza Bhutto on his 25th death anniversary.
“Twenty five years ago, my father was killed outside our home. For me, it will always feel like yesterday. Though my brother @zulfikaralibhutto and I were so young when our father was taken from us, I will always remember him as a man who lived on this earth unafraid.”
“His life was a gift to me, I’m eternally grateful to have had him as my father. We have had no justice after 25 years, but love is a justice. It lives forever, it forgets nothing. Today we remember him and the martyrs and comrades who died alongside him.”
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Murtaza Bhutto, along with six other party activists, was killed in an encounter with police near his residence in Karachi on 20th September 1996.
The injured included six activists of Murtaza Bhutto’s party and three policemen. In 2009, a sessions court in Karachi acquitted 20 policemen in the Murtaza Bhutto case.
Murtaza Bhutto was murdered in 1996 when Fatima was 14 years old, while her aunt Benazir Bhutto was in power. He is the focus of Fatima’s 2010 memoir ‘Songs of Blood and Sword’.
