Dhaka, Oct 24 (bdnews24.com) -- Pakistan's former first lady Begum Nusrat Bhutto has died in Dubai after a prolonged illness. She was 82.
BBC and Pakistan's official news agency Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) have confirmed the news, quoting officials.
Nushrat was the widow of the former Pakistani prime minister and president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and the mother of Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated four years ago.
Nusrat was herself elected twice to the Pakistani parliament. She led the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) until her daughter took over in the mid-1980s.
Her husband, Zulfikar, was the founder of the PPP, which is now governing Pakistan. He was prime minister and president in the 1970s.
Nusrat led the PPP for several years after her husband was hanged in 1979, during the military rule of Gen Zia-ul-Haq.
Her daughter, Benazir, later took over as head of the PPP and served twice as prime minister.
Benazir was assassinated in 2007, shortly after returning to the country to participate in elections following years of exile. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, is now Pakistan's president.
Nusrat will be buried in the family's mausoleum in southern Sindh province, a PPP spokesman was quoted as saying by BBC.
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