Word: benazir
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Ever since she was dismissed as Prime Minister more than a month ago on charges of corruption and general incompetence, Benazir Bhutto has waited anxiously to see what legal grenades the government would toss at her. Last week she found out. With new elections scheduled for late October, the government filed charges in four cases, accusing her of misuse of power while in office. Insisted the former Prime Minister: "The cases are ridiculous...
...Benazir Bhutto had always suspected that her term as Pakistan's Prime Minister would end abruptly, probably at the hands of the country's military. Even so, the news came as a shock to Bhutto last week. At 4:30 Monday afternoon, President Ghulam Ishaq Khan telephoned the Prime Minister at her official residence in Islamabad to inform her that he was dismissing her 20- month-old government under Article 58 of the constitution for "internal dissensions" and allegedly "horse trading for personal gain," among other things. "I can't believe it," she said as she hung up the phone...
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 is reportedly under house arrest in Islamabad after being deposed in a surprise move by Pakistan's president early yesterday...
...business will be to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. She alone has the moral stature to press for the end to authoritarian rule and to halt the political factionalism that brought the military to power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain. But unlike some of the others, who stepped into...
...India is indulging in genocide," charged Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last week. She had just returned from a week-long tour of eight Middle Eastern countries, where she was seeking support for the Kashmiris' right to self-determination. While some Kashmiri militants favor an independent state of their own, Bhutto rejected that idea as "extremely dangerous." Kashmir's freedom, she insisted, was "the freedom to join Pakistan." In the process, she said, armed conflict with India could not be ruled out, "but we do not believe war is inevitable...