Aunt and niece’s war with pens Jackie Kabir William Darlymple has perhaps rightly commented that if there is anyone born to write Bhutto family’s story, it is Fatima Bhutto. Songs of Blood and Sword, published by Penguin and Viking, is a sad but un-putdownable work which is a memoir. Fatima is the granddaughter of Zulfiker Ali Bhutto, Pakistan’s first democratically elected Prime Minister - ousted by General Zia to be imprisoned and finally hanged in 1997. She is also the niece to the first female prime minister in the Muslim world, Benazir Bhutto, assassinated in 2007. The writer lost both her uncle and her father in 1985 and 1996 respectively. As I was devouring through the pages with eagerness I couldn’t help remembering yet another book with similar backgrounds written by Fatima’s aunt Benazir, The Daughter of the East an autobiography. Some of the episodes from the books were like looking at the same picture from different angles. Fatima was barely in her teens when her father wa...