ISLAMABAD, 23 November 2005 — Syrian-born Ghinwa Bhutto cannot meet her mother-in-law and widow of executed Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Ghinwa is the mother of two children — Fatima Bhutto and Zulfikar Bhutto. She heads her faction of the Pakistan People’s Party after her husband, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, was assassinated in 1996 in Karachi when his sister, Benazir Bhutto, was the prime minister of Pakistan. After Murtaza’s murder, Nusrat Bhutto was taken ill and was never seen in public.

Ghinwa and Zulfikar, who are currently visiting relief camps for survivors of the Oct. 8 earthquake in the North West Frontier Province, told Arab News that she wanted to meet Nusrat in Dubai but was not allowed to do so by aides of Benazir Bhutto.