ISLAMABAD - Eighteen-year-old Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, daughter of assassinated former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, has tried to overcome her anguish over her mother's death by writing and performing a rap song in her memory, reported the Press Trust of India.
Miss Zardari exposes the pain she and her family felt over Ms Bhutto's cruel death in December 2007 in the number, I Would Take The Pain Away.
"Dear mum, I've got a few things to say to you...things I never got a chance to say... But if I could have you...I would take the pain away, I would take the pain, I would take the pain away..." runs the five-minute song.
The number is presently being played on the state-run PTV in Pakistan and has been posted on video-sharing site, YouTube.
Miss Zardari, a keen music fan who was reportedly encouraged by her mother to consider a singing career, was introduced to Grammy Award-winning rapper Puff Daddy just before Ms Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomber.
She addresses her mother in the rap: "Murdered legendary mother...you had beauty and intelligence... enemies feared your presence...shot at the back of your ear, so young in 54th year, murdered with three kids left behind, a hopeless nation without you..."
The music video for the song uses footage of the election rally Ms Bhutto addressed in Rawalpindi shortly before her death.
Miss Zardari even includes in the lyrics a premonition of death her mother supposedly had.
She sings: "That cowardly bullet, stole your life from the fullest, how you wished me a happy 18th (birthday) a whole month in advance...
"cause somehow you knew it was your last chance..."
Miss Zardari, a first-year English literature student, was recently voted into the Students' Representative Council of the Edinburgh University Students' Union.
She is not set on a musical career - at least not yet. Like her mother, she has also considered politics.
