📍70 Clifton, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
1953 – 1969“I grew up at 70 Clifton, our family home in Karachi, a large white house set in gardens behind a high wall, near the sea breezes of the Clifton shore. I was born in June 1953, the eldest of four children, and my family called me Pinkie for my rosy cheeks. My father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, came from a landowning family in Larkana, in Sindh; my mother, Nusrat, was from an Iranian-Kurdish family, and our home was a busy, cosmopolitan place full of visitors, politics and conversation. My father's library at 70 Clifton was out of bounds to most children, but he would often call me inside. While my friends read comics, he gave me books on Napoleon and the great leaders of history, and talked to me about world affairs as though I were an adult. He travelled constantly, and wrote me letters from abroad, urging me to study hard. I went to the Convent of Jesus and Mary just down the road, and to school in the hills at Murree, and as the eldest I bossed my brothers and sister about and tried to keep everything in order. In 1969, at sixteen, I left 70 Clifton to study at Harvard, and later at Oxford. My father went on to lead Pakistan, and the house at Clifton became the centre of our family's political life. I later became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim-majority nation, serving twice as Prime Minister of Pakistan. I wrote about those years at 70 Clifton in my memoir, Daughter of the East; it was the home where I first learned that politics could be a calling.”
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