Word: benazir
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...Benazir Bhutto tenderly sprinkled red and yellow flowers on her father's marble tomb last week, the scene amounted to only a brief respite from a family feud of royal proportions. Just minutes earlier, Pakistani national police had prevented her mother from making the same gesture -- by firing tear gas and bullets at the 63-year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed...
Such is the sorry state of Pakistan's ruling dynasty on the 66th anniversary of the birth of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat's husband, Benazir's father and Pakistan's Prime Minister before General Zia had him hanged in 1979. The rift is not just mother against daughter, but also brother against sister. Accused of terrorism by the Zia regime, Murtaza Bhutto, 39, Nusrat's eldest son, has been in jail since November. After 16 years of exile abroad, he came home to claim a provincial seat he had won in absentia in the same elections that brought his older...
...Benazir has spurned her mother's entreaties to get the charges against Murtaza dismissed. She has not even visited her sibling in prison. Last month she talked the central executive committee of the Pakistan People's Party, founded by her father, into dropping her mother from her post as party chairperson...
Newly elected Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Pakistan would continue pursuing its nuclear program, which American officials believe has already produced nuclear weapons. "We will not allow our national interest to be sacrificed," said Bhutto...
...THIS IS MY VICTORY. IT IS A CLEAR and decisive victory." That was Pakistan People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto's line last week, and, to an extent, the election results bore her out. After a bitter name-calling campaign, Bhutto and her P.P.P. gained 87 seats in the 217-seat National Assembly -- a plurality far short of a majority -- while her rival, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League, took...