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Everytime I see Bhutto's son make a statement about his new role in the PPP, I have to fight off tears.

He's 19!

It's so incredibly fucked up I can't even process it.

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She was only a few years older than that when her father was executed. In a recent interview, she mentioned that as her reason for entering politics. So it goes...

The entire situation, on both a family and a national level is simultaneously so epic, so sad, and so horrible that I have no words. I suppose if Pakistan is (very relatively speaking) lucky (and perhaps even if it isn't), the story of her family will be the stuff of tragically heroic national legends in a few generations.