She was born on 29 May 1982 to Bhutto family of Murtaza Bhutto, a son of the former prime minister of Pakistan Z. A. Bhutto, her mother Fauzia Fasihudin was from Afghanistan. Her father went into exile during the General Zia-ul-Haq era. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and she moved from country to country, with her father. She grew up stateless. Her father married Ghinwa Bhutto, a Lebanese ballet teacher in 1989 in Syria. Bhutto considers Ghinwa to be her real mother. She is the granddaughter of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, an Iranian Kurd, niece of Benazir <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/profiles/4626726/Fatima-Bhutto-A-beauty-to-tame-George-Clooney-and-even-Pakistan.html Fatima Bhutto: A beauty to tame George Clooney – and even Pakistan- by Langley, William. (15 February 2009) - The Telegraph]</ref> | She was born on 29 May 1982 to Bhutto family of Murtaza Bhutto, a son of the former prime minister of Pakistan Z. A. Bhutto, her mother Fauzia Fasihudin was from Afghanistan. Her father went into exile during the General Zia-ul-Haq era. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and she moved from country to country, with her father. She grew up stateless. Her father married Ghinwa Bhutto, a Lebanese ballet teacher in 1989 in Syria. Bhutto considers Ghinwa to be her real mother. She is the granddaughter of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto, an Iranian Kurd, niece of Benazir <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/profiles/4626726/Fatima-Bhutto-A-beauty-to-tame-George-Clooney-and-even-Pakistan.html Fatima Bhutto: A beauty to tame George Clooney – and even Pakistan- by Langley, William. (15 February 2009) - The Telegraph]</ref> |