Bakhtawar Bhutto Writes & Sings a Rap Song Expressing Grief over Her Mother Benazir Bhutto’s Death
The elder daughter of Pakistan’s assassinated former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, has written a rap song expressing grief over her death.
The song by Bakhtawar Bhutto, 18, comes a year after the assassination and is entitled “I would take the pain away”.
It pays tribute to her mother’s “crazy courage” and describes her as “the epitome of benevolence”.
It has been played regularly on state-run television and has been posted on the video-sharing website YouTube.
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The rap song Bakhtawar Bhutto posted on video-sharing website YouTube
‘Weeping’
“My mother was murdered. I don’t even comprehend. Was it worth dying for? I’m walking through screened doors,” Bakhtawar sings in English.
“No comfort or ease. I’m begging you please, God bless the deceased,” she laments in the song.
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Praising her mother’s “beauty and intelligence”, the song says that the “whole world is weeping” over the murder.
“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,” it says.
The teenager, a student at Edinburgh University, then repeats the chorus line “I would take the pain away”.
A video to accompany the song shows footage and photographs of her smiling mother while election campaigning shortly before her death in Rawalpindi in December 2007 and of public grieving after her death.
Ms Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack on her convoy – blamed on Islamic militants – as it travelled through the city’s Liaquat Bagh park. She had just finished addressing an election rally.
Information Minister Sherry Rehman – who for several years was an aide to Ms Bhutto – told the Reuters news agency that Bakhtawar wrote the lyrics and music while studying in Edinburgh.
“It’s a tribute of a grieving daughter to her iconic and loving mother,” she said.
Ms Rehman said that while music was a hobby for Bakhtawar, she had no plan to pursue it as a career.
The song has had mixed reviews in the British press.
“While her dirge-like rap is unlikely to secure her a Grammy, the seemingly heartfelt tribute might win her some fans,” The Independent newspaper says.
The Guardian says that she uses the song to “pour out her anguish”.
Ms Bhutto’s widower and Bakhtawar’s father, Asif Ali Zardari, became president of Pakistan in September.
Their son, Bilawal, 20, studies at Oxford University in the UK and another daughter, Aseefa, 14, also studies abroad.
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Daughter of a great Leader who was not only a nations leader but also a mother, a wife, a daring daughter. Benazir Bhutto Shaheed has given an exuberant gush to the creation and creativity. Bakhtawar has done a great job in continuing the cause of her Mother.
Bhaktawar a great daughter of great mom…….
well done are the lines of the song….. but mom was no doubt way above and beyound these lines…..geat going keep it
I Think Pakistan Govt Ko Action Lena Chaiye
You are so right Hyder, Pakistani Government should take action and account those people whosoever were involved at any level. I truly don’t understand as to why the heck the PPP- who is in Government and pure power and authority- is not at all concerned about investigating the murder of their very leader who was also respectable for all nation in many ways!!! I don’t know why the heck PPP and Zardari are now showing any respect to the leader due to whom they are now enjoying the power…
totally unfair!
hello bakhtawar nice song but i have request to u if u dont mind dear i m shari from karachi and i like u very much and wana marry with u i dont know how can i marry with u bcz i belong to middle class family same to ur father family
but if u really seariouse then plz plz replly me on my e-mail address pasahdvali2@yahoo.com its my e-mail and me waiting urs replly i m 29 year old single urdu speak and doing master from university of karachi ….in commerce dept….
Hello,Bakhtawar i really feel sorry for u,may God give u and ur family courage to bear this loss, your rap song is really very heart touching, and u may not believe that i cried after listening to it,i wish u a very happy and successful life and may God save ur family from any further loss, and may the real culprits get the real punishment.
dear i knew that your own father is master planer of the murder of BB.
if u wana prof contact me.
if u wana u can find me.
@ Raza
you should marry with Altaf bahi Daughter she is middle class family like you bahi will send you in hell or call you London,for that you have you killed at least 100 person then Bahi will think abt that.
@Zeehan
i think BB is killed by Altaf kalia with help of Musharaf they are real agent of Indian,America Britannia They agent will be killed soon.
May her soul rest in Peace and in my personal Thaught This Country “PAKISTAN” do not desrve such kind of leaders we all Miss BB and hope that Bilawal Bhutto can over come her duties so Pakistan may Remember the Bhutto Family for ever. I love your song u r like my sister and i love you more than my real sister i can realise your pain because i also lost many of my family members in PPP so love uu Sister.