they later got married on 8 September 1951. She was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's second wife, and they had four children together: Benazir, Murtaza, Sanam and Shahnawaz. With the exception of Sanam, she outlived her children. Benazir's widower and Nusrat's son-in-law Asif Ali Zardari was the President of Pakistan from 9 September 2008 till 8 September 2013. Besides her native Persian, Bhutto was fluent in Urdu and Sindhi. Bhutto was suspected of suffering from cancer in 1982, the year when she left Pakistan for medical treatment. For the last several years of her life, she had also been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. In the mid-1990s, particularly after the death of her son Mir Murtaza Bhutto in 1996, she withdrew from public life. Party sources suggest this may also have coincided with the time that she began to show symptoms of Alzheimer's. According to her senior party leader, Bhutto's disease was so advanced that she was even unaware of the assassination of her daughter, Benazir. She used a ventilator until her last days. She died at the age of 82 in the Iranian Hospital Dubai on 23 October 2011. Her body was flown to her hometown of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in the Larkana District the next day, and was buried next to her husband and children in the Bhutto family mausoleum at a ceremony attended by thousands of mourners. Further reading See also Bhutto family Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Begum Nusrat Bhutto Women University Begum Nusrat Bhutto Airport Nusrat Bhutto Colony References External links Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto 1929 births 2011 deaths Spouses of prime ministers of Pakistan Pakistan People's Party MNAs Nusrat Pakistani Shia Muslims Pakistani people of Iranian descent Pakistani people of Kurdish descent Iranian emigrants to Pakistan Pakistani expatriates in the United Arab Emirates Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Neurological disease deaths in the United Arab Emirates People from Dubai Politicians from Karachi Iranian Kurdish women Iranian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates 20th-century Pakistani women politicians Iranian people of Kurdish descent Kurdish politicians Naturalised citizens of Pakistan Pakistani prisoners and detainees Spouses of presidents of Pakistan Pakistani MNAs 1988–1990