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...buoy public support, Musharraf seems to be cozying up to former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, both of whom are in enforced exile; Bhutto's husband, Asif Zardari, was recently released from jail, where he had been held for eight years on corruption charges. Reconciliation could lead to a promising tableau: a general-cum-President sharing democratic space with the leaders of Pakistan's two main political parties...
...FREED. ASIF ALI ZARDARI, 52, husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto; by the Supreme Court, on $17,000 bail; in Islamabad. Zardari, jailed in 1996 when his wife's government was removed from power, faced up to 22 charges, including tax evasion and conspiracy in the murder of Bhutto's brother, Mir Murtaza. He was acquitted of 14 charges and granted bail on seven when the final case ended last week...
INDICTED. BENAZIR BHUTTO, 51, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; for money laundering; in Switzerland. Although Bhutto and her husband successfully appealed a similar conviction last year, she was back in a Geneva courtroom last week to face more serious allegations involving some $13.8 million. Bhutto, who heads the opposition Pakistan People's Party from her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai, claims the charges are part of a Pakistani-government smear campaign against...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir P. Bhutto ’73 was just one of the distinguished speakers featured at the 30th reunion of the Class of 1973 this weekend...
...daughter of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, once the Prime Minister of Pakistan ... Last week the articulate Benazir Bhutto, 34, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, astonished friends and foes alike by announcing that she had agreed to an arranged marriage to a wealthy Pakistani businessman whom she had met only twice before. The prospective bridegroom is Asif Ali Zardari, 34, a handlebar-mustached building contractor and polo player ... The Zardari family reportedly broached the subject of marriage to Benazir's mother and aunt last year. Benazir and Asif subsequently met at a dinner party, but they...