Thread by @umaraqti

Bhutto's grandfather Mir Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto's was hot-blooded. He fell in love with the beautiful Sindhi "mistress" of Larkana’s British collector magistrate, Colonel Mayhew.
The wily old Colonel suspected the affair and “laid a trap to catch them.

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The colonel pretended to leave on tour, letting the word of his departure reach Larkana from his Sukkur residence, luring Mir Murtaza as fast as his horse could gallop to the Sher mistress’s bed.
The colonel returned that same night to catch the naked lovers..

..lashing out at Mir Murtaza with his horsewhip. Young Bhutto managed to grab the whip, however, knocking the old man to the floor and giving him “a few lashes” before fleeing with his young love, depositing her with her parents near Napierabad..

..Colonel never forgot such an insult patiently waiting almost a year, to take revenge.
British Colonel opened false murder cases against Mir Murtaza, his father advised his hot-blooded son to flee.

Mir Murtaza first fled to Bahawalpur State, where his British nemesis..

..discovered him, then to Kabul, where no British officers could follow.
Mir Murtaza’s Afghan exile left his father, Khuda Bakhsh Khan, to bear the brunt of the colonel’s anti-Bhuttoism as Col hired criminals to ambush Khuda Bakhsh one evening as he was returning home..

..after inspecting some of his distant property in Jacobabad district. Khuda Bakhsh was severely injured in the ambush and succumbed to his injuries.
Colonel Mayhew confiscated all moveable Bhutto properties, including invaluable jewels, heirlooms, and gold-embossed saddles..

..and guns, ordering kerosene poured over the guest houses and godowns to set fire to the furniture, carpets, and durries.
When Mir Murtaza learned of his father’s death and its tragic aftermath, he appealed to Kabul’s Iron Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, in Kabul, for help to reclaim..

.. his confiscated fortune. The Afghan amir provided the young Bhutto Khan with sufficient funds not only to return to Sindh but to enable him to fight out his case in Court.
But Mir Murtaza lost all his Afghan gold when the boat he had hired to take him..

..from Peshawar to Karachi capsized in a storm at Panjnad. Ever resourceful, he managed to borrow more money from an official in Bahawalpur State, where he was well known, and so completed his journey to Karachi.