Pakistan's former first lady Begum Nusrat Bhutto has died in Dubai after a long illness. She was 82.
She was the widow of the former Pakistani Prime Minister and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and the mother of Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated four years ago. Nusrat Bhutto was herself elected twice to the Pakistani parliament.
She led the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) until her daughter took over in the mid-1980s.
Her husband, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was the founder of the PPP, which controls the government in Pakistan today.
He was prime minister and president in the 1970s.
Nusrat Bhutto led the PPP for several years after her husband was hanged in 1979, during the military rule of Gen Zia-ul-Haq.
Her daughter, Benazir, later took over as head of the PPP and served twice as prime minister.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in 2007, shortly after returning to the country to participate in elections following years of exile. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, is now Pakistan's president.
Nusrat Bhutto will be buried in the family's mausoleum in southern Sindh province, a PPP spokesman said.
