Bhutto a victim of South Asia`s cursed dynasties

It was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who founded Pakistan's troubled dynasty. He became the country's first popularly elected prime minister but was toppled by the army in 1977 and later hanged.

Both his sons died in mysterious circumstances.

His daughter Benazir, a former prime minister, was lucky to survive when a suicide attack on her motorcade killed nearly 150 people as she returned to Pakistan in October after eight years in exile.

Later that month she paid an emotional return to her father's grave in their ancestral village in southern Pakistan.

"There is still danger of attack, but Allah can protect everyone and I am not scared," she was quoted by Reuters as saying.