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...Benazir Bhutto was a divisive figure. Adored by the millions who saw her as the inheritor of her father's political legacy and heir to his Pakistan People's Party, she will always be remembered as "Pinky." It was an affectionate nickname used by those who had the opportunity to know her in earlier days, before the title Prime Minister preceded her name, or now, "assassinated former Prime Minister." But many others see her as an opportunist, a young idealist who studied at the knee of her father only to grow into a potent political force...
...People's Party rally in Faisalabad on Thursday was marred by televised ticker-tape warnings that a suspected suicide bomber had entered the city, discouraging attendance. It was to have been one of the PPP's largest campaign events, attended by Asif Zardari, husband of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Organizers had expected some 25,000 supporters, but only half that number arrived. Housewife Nasim Nawar said fears of a terror attack had kept many at home. "Not everybody wants to sacrifice his or her life to support Zardari," she says. "But whether or not they come today, they...
...threaten Musharraf's grip on power as much as the jihadist insurgency that has made parts of the country ungovernable. The lawyers' demonstrations exposed Musharraf's growing unpopularity among his own people. Musharraf had hoped to salvage some legitimacy by entering an ill-fated partnership with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. (Ahsan is a member of her Pakistan People's Party [PPP], but she didn't support the lawyers' movement.) Bhutto was already backing away from a power-sharing deal when she was assassinated on Dec. 27. Now the PPP and other opposition groups are expected...
...Benazir Bhutto was as much a part of Pakistan’s problems as Harvard was part of hers. Vinay Sitapati ’08 is an LL.M. Candidate at Harvard Law School...
...real Benazir Bhutto embodied two of Pakistan’s biggest ills: the perpetual protection of feudal interests, and a democratic process plagued by nepotism and corruption. It is this democracy deficit that both the Pakistani army and the Islamists are currently exploiting. But like the audience offering blind adulation at the Kennedy School in 1997, the world press and Harvard have chosen to ignore her past, focusing instead on what Bhutto symbolized to the West, not what she was to her own people...