Word: benazir
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: While hundreds of riot police stood guard outside the courthouse, Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to restore her to power without an election. The decision closes a two-month struggle that erupted after President Farooq Leghari dismissed Bhutto amid allegations of corruption and economic mismanagement and then jailed her husband, former Investment Minister Asif Ali Zardari, for accepting massive kickbacks and abusing his position in government. Zardari had earned the nickname "Mr. 40 Percent," the sum he reportedly demanded of potential business contacts, after being acquitted of the same charge...
...Benazir Bhutto had grown impatient with the rumors, and dismissed them angrily. "Rubbish," she told TIME. In interviews she insisted that her ties with Pakistani President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari were fine, that the talk of his sacking her government was just disinformation from the dark forces she claimed were out to strangle her country's hobbling democracy. Never mind that Leghari himself had publicly suggested the move. If the President had problems with her, the Prime Minister said repeatedly, she didn't see why he didn't bring them up. On Tuesday morning he did just that--and laid...
...that the student-led band of Muslim warriors were actively backed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency (ISI) and by some members of the country's powerful military. The motive: gaining some influence over a neighbor with whom it shares a long and exceedingly porous border. Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has denied any involvement, but in late September, Naseerullah Babar, Pakistan's Interior Minister, flew to Afghanistan to work out a settlement between the Taliban and the most powerful of the Afghan warlords. While that seemed to support suspicions, the stories told by several of the prisoners...
...Senate. Ten years ago, there were only two female senators, so female attendance in the Senate has vastly increased, perhaps indicating a trend, but because of their voting power, women should compose far more than 9 percent of the Senate. More importantly, why, when the world has seen Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir, Corazon Aquino and Kim Campbell, has America never even had a serious female candidate for president? Is the answer that the American mindset hearkens back to the ancient conception of a woman as the passive matter and not the active form? Or is 77 years not enough time...
...government was recognized almost immediately by Pakistan. That move surprised few in Kabul, where it was widely believed that Islamabad has been quietly sending substantial support across the border to the Taliban--an allegation both sides deny. "Pakistan is not assisting the Taliban," Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto told TIME last week. "If the Taliban could unite Afghanistan and end the factionalism, it will be a boon for the region." On the other hand, a Pakistan led by a female Prime Minister cannot be sanguine about a neighboring government exporting zealous, old-style Islamic ideals. For its part, the U.S. cares...