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• Bakhtawar Bhutto is the daughter of late Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide bombing in December 2007. Bhutto made a rap song dedicated to her mother that she posted on YouTube in January 2009.Charlotte Observer: Benazir Bhutto's daughter honors mom with rap song (January 6, 2009) The song has also aired on state-run television in Pakistan.

• Fast Facts

  1. 18 years old when posting the song to YouTube in January 2009Charlotte Observer: Benazir Bhutto's daughter honors mom with rap song (January 6, 2009)
  2. Name of song: I Would Take the Pain Away
  3. One of three children of the late Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari, the current president of PakistanCharlotte Observer: Benazir Bhutto's daughter honors mom with rap song (January 6, 2009)
  4. Student at the University of Edinburgh in ScotlandCharlotte Observer: Benazir Bhutto's daughter honors mom with rap song (January 6, 2009)
  5. Bhutto wrote the lyrics and music to the song while a student at the universityBBC News: Daughter's rap tribute to Bhutto (January 6, 2009)
  6. Siblings: Bilawal, her older brother, and Aseefa, her younger sisterCharlotte Observer: Benazir Bhutto's daughter honors mom with rap song (January 6, 2009)
  7. Bakhtawar has previously been involved in Pakistani politics as leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party's women's wing
  8. Her mother, Benazir Bhutto, was killed in December 2007 in Pakistan in a suicide bomb attack near her carBBC News: Daughter's rap tribute to Bhutto (January 6, 2009)
  9. Benazir had served as prime minister of Pakistan twiceBBC News: Daughter's rap tribute to Bhutto (January 6, 2009)
  10. Bakhtawar's father, Asif Ali Zardani, became the prime minister of Pakistan in September 2008

• Quotes from Video

  "Murdered legendary mother, she's got crazy courage."

  "You have beauty and intelligence, everything you did relevant. Shot in the back of your ear, so young in 54th year, murdered with three kids left behind, a hopeless nation without you, you are in all their hearts." — Bakhtawar Bhutto in the video tribute to her mother

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  Benazir Bhutto | Asif Ali Zardari | Bilawal Bhutto | Pakistan

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