Begum Nusrat had been living in Dubai since the time Benazir Bhutto went into self-exile in the late 1990s.
She was suffering from cancer and Alzheimer''s disease and was largely incapacitated.
The daughter of a wealthy Iranian businessman, Nusrat was born in Esfahan on March 23, 1929.
Her family later moved to the Pakistani port city of Karachi.
She married Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1951, becoming his second wife.
After Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was executed during the regime of military ruler Zia-ul-Haq in 1979, Nusrat became the leader of the Pakistan People�s Party and played a role in grooming Benazir for taking over the party.
Though she left Pakistan in 1982 to seek treatment for cancer in Britain, she subsequently returned to the country and was elected to the parliament from Larkana, the Bhutto family''s stronghold in Sindh province.
She served as a federal minister in the governments headed by her daughter Benazir.
PPP leaders said Nusrat was affected by the deaths of her two sons, Shahnawaz and Mir Murtaza.
Shahnawaz died in mysterious circumstances in France in 1985 while Murtaza was gunned down outside the family home in Karachi in 1996.
At the time, Nusrat had supported Murtaza over Benazir to lead the PPP.
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