Word: benazir
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...whom have been tried, tested and found wanting - should be anointed, Britain and the U.S. should support a truly democratic process with an emphasis on justice, accountability and honesty. Otherwise, the common man looks set to remain sidelined, while the likes of a U.S.-sponsored Nawaz Sharif or Benazir Bhutto and al-Qaeda-Taliban partisans will reign supreme from their respective corners. Burhan Khan, Beckenham, England...
...plasticine model of the Taj Mahal squeezed onto too small a foundation. Before Bhutto--who founded the Pakistan People's Party--was hanged, he had requested nothing more than a humble marble slab to mark his grave. But in Pakistani politics, image is everything. It's a lesson Benazir Bhutto learned at her father's knee. Hence her decision a dozen years ago to build him an ornate, 130-ft. (40 m) onion dome in the family's ancestral seat of Larkana...
...whom have been tried, tested and found wanting - should be anointed, Britain and the U.S. should support a truly democratic process with an emphasis on justice, accountability and honesty. Otherwise, the common man looks set to remain sidelined, while the likes of a U.S.-sponsored Nawaz Sharif or Benazir Bhutto and al- Qaeda-Taliban partisans will reign supreme from their respective corners. Burhan Khan, BECKENHAM, ENGLAND...
...been rocked by controversy over Musharraf's eligibiity even as he feuded angrily with the judicial branch of government. Friday's ruling appeared to be another round of that tit-for-tat - though tempered by another long-running drama, Musharraf's budding alliance with his old nemesis, the exiled Benazir Bhutto...
...Sindh remains a solid base of support. Despite the socialist platform of both Bhutto and her father, both are beneficiaries of an almost feudal system in Sindh, where landlords and tribal leaders dictate how their people vote. In keeping with this tradition, many of these voters don't question Benazir's judgment in cutting deals with Musharraf, or anything else. "If Benazir got a horse, and told people to vote for the horse," says 27-year-old Larkana shopkeeper Muhammad Ali Sheikh, "we would line up to vote for the horse...