Benazir Bhutto and Peter Galbraith

Benazir Bhutto and Peter Galbraith pose together in this undated photograph likely taken in Boston in the 1970s. The two went to Harvard University together and became very good friends. “The Galbraiths would become like second parents to Benazir,” Libby Hughes wrote in her book Benazir Bhutto: From Prison to Prime Minister. “She was often invited to their Cambridge home as well as their vacation home in Vermont.”

Nusrat Bhutto accompanied her daughter to Boston when she began Harvard in August 1969, and spent several weeks with her. It was at a tea with the Galbraiths that Benazir first met Peter.

“When she arrived at Harvard, she was a very quiet and shy sixteen-year-old,” he said about the meeting in Hughes’ book. “I had been hitchhiking around South America and proceeded to expound to them my theories of life at Harvard… After I got through, I expected Mrs Bhutto would take her daughter back to Pakistan. Of course, I said all this with great authority, but I was barely a freshman and knew absolutely nothing. However, Pinkie did tell me years later that she was shocked at my long, stringy hair.”

Peter Galbraith went on to become an important diplomat.