Word: benazir
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...which last weekend were awarded to the Italian city of Turin rather than Swiss front-runner Sion. So they?re bargaining with their only chip ?- the secrecy of their banks. In the last few years, the world?s most discreet bankers have blown the whistle on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko of the former Zaire. The Swiss are only too glad to add Milosevic to that distinguished list ?- but considering their credibility these days, it would help if they actually found some of the money...
...BENAZIR BHUTTO Ex-leader of Pakistan gets five years in prison for corruption. She forgot to bribe the judge
SENTENCED. BENAZIR BHUTTO, 46, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; to five years in prison; for corruption; in Islamabad. Bhutto, whose government was dissolved in November 1996, was also fined $8.6 million. She is currently in England and is expected to return to Pakistan to fight the charges...
...ills? Many of Nawaz Sharif's countrymen think it could send Pakistan into terminal decline. According to the well-respected Karachi newspaper Dawn, people "just want a little improvement in their lives from the tyranny and callousness of Pakistani officialdom." Political opponents, including, of course, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, say the new Islamic bill is likely to increase that tyranny. One interpretation holds that this amendment will anoint Nawaz Sharif as a religious dictator, a supreme arbiter of what is considered good and evil under Islam. Nawaz Sharif, though, contends that only a strict adherence to Shari'a--which...
...especially important in light of the leadership roles so many of us will eventually hold. Our fine alma mater has produced five U.S. Presidents and 28 Nobel laureates, and a quick look through the 25th Reunion Report of the Class of 1973 shows many of Harvard's shining stars. Benazir Bhutto '73 served as Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first woman to hold the position in an Islamic nation. Robert W. Decherd '73, a past president of The Crimson, heads A.H. Belo Corporation, a media conglomerate that runs five newspapers and more than ten television stations (none of which carry...