Word: benazir
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...During her four years at Harvard, Benazir Bhutto '73, the shy girl from Eliot House known as "Pinkie," prepared for her rise as a political trailblazer. As turbulence rocks her home country after her assassination on Thursday, classmates remember Bhutto as a student driven by her love for Pakistan and set apart by the vigor of her convictions...
...Benazir was certainly not a perfect political leader, but she sure was a brave one," Fadiman said. "I think that she knew when she went back this time that there was a real chance she would be assassinated, but she went anyway...
Just 24 hours after the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's interior ministry announced what many people had suspected: al-Qaeda-linked extremists were responsible for the killing. The ministry said that one of Bhutto's assailants was a known member of the extremist organization Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a group it said was allied with al-Qaeda and the Taliban. If so, it could mean further evidence of a dramatic and disturbing diversification in Al-Qaeda's terrorism playbook...
...Pakistan buried Benazir Bhutto, many of her supporters there turned to violence to express their grief and anger over her assassination. In Britain, where Bhutto has lived off and on in self-imposed exile for eight years until her final return to Pakistan two months ago, the mourning has been quieter and more solemn. But the emotions are just as deep. Many of Britain's estimated 750,000 Pakistanis had embraced Bhutto as a symbol of hope for freedom and stability back home. As Britain's politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying...
...hours since a lone attacker assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the rumor mill has again been working overtime. In Karachi, amid reports of rioting and sabotage, stories circulated that the city's water supply had been poisoned and people were afraid to drink it. There were also the conflicting accounts of how Bhutto died - from bullet wounds or from a bomb blast that followed or from fracturing her skull against her car's sun-roof as the assailant blew himself up. In the confusion of reports, many Pakistanis are pointing the finger of blame at President Pervez Musharraf...