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Mandarin · pinyin Bù tuō

Bhutto (name)
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928-1979), president of Pakistan 1971-1979 executed by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Benazzir Bhutto (1953-2007), twice president of Pakistan 1988-1990 and 1993-1996

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布: bù · cotton cloth, textiles, linen
托: tuō · to hold up with palm; to support, rely on

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a transliteration of the Urdu or Sindhi surname بھٹو, Bhutto

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