Oh brother: Pakistan. (Bhutto family)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: December 11, 1993 | Copyright information

A power struggle is underway among Bhutto family members for leadership position in the ruling Pakistan People's Party. Prime minister Benazir Bhutto may be facing a challenge from her brother Murtaza, who has returned to Pakistan after 14 years in exile.

THE heirs of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto are quarrelling over his legacy. The prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, who shared the leadership of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) with her mother, Nusrat Bhutto, has crowned herself sole l...

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