'This was our second family reunion in Cannes...

'Zia has turned Pakistan into a state of armed terror,' Mir had insisted. 'Only violence can answer violence.'

'Violence only breeds violence,' I had retorted. 'That kind of struggle cannot deliver anything lasting to the people. Any permanent change must come peacefully and politically through elections, backed by the mandate of the people.'

'Elections? What elections? Zia will never give up. He will have to be forced out ny armed struggle,' Mir countered.

'The army will always have more arms than any guerrilla forces,' I argued. 'The State's capability will always be greater than any group of dissidents. Armed struggle is not only impractical, but counterproductive.'

Back and forth our argument raged, our voices rising until Shah (Nawaz) slipped away to go swimming, to go to a cafe, to go anywhere that we were not. 'I can't bear it when you guys argue like that,' he told me. This year, to Shah's relief, Mir and I had agreed to disagree and not to discuss politics at all.'

On her youngest brother Shah Nawaz Bhutto

I took Shah home to Pakistan on August 21, 1985. The regime had reluctantly agreed to allow his burial in Larkana (Sindh), swayed perhaps by the people's outrage that, contrary to Muslim ritual, neither my mother and I nor they had been permitted to witness my father's burial. Yet the regime was once again making every effort to keep the burial of another Bhutto quiet...

Shah had longed to return to the home of his birth for eight years. I was determined to make his final journey as meaningful to him as Clifton in Karachi, Al-Murtaza in Larkana. I wanted to take him past the lands where he had hunted with Papa and Mir, past our fields and ponds, past the people he had tried to defend in his own way. The people, too, deserved the chance to honour this brave son of Pakistan before he was laid to rest near his father in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh.

Kind Courtesy: Daughter of the East

Photograph: Benazir Bhutto prays at her brother Mir Murtaza Bhutto's grave during her visit to the village of Gahri Khuda Baksh in October 2007. Several thousand people clapped and chanted 'Benazir' as the former premier arrived in a bullet-proof jeep at the village in a remote corner of southern Pakistan and immediately entered her family's mausoleum. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images Also see: Benazir's last engagement

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