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...exploded on a crowded bus, killing at least 40 people heading home for Eid al-Adha,Islam's most holy day. At least 26 others were injured in the blast, some seriously. No group has yet taken responsibility, says TIME's Ghulam Hasnain, but groups opposed to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's government are likely behind the incident. Sunday's blast follows a string of passenger bus explosions in Lahore during the last year. Many of these acts have been attributed to internal sectarian rivalry, says Hasnain: "In last few months, there has been a gradual increase of pressure...
...contrast to the sports-and-celebrity-heavy format of its early days, the newscast now stresses social issues of interest to young people, with enterprising stories on the homeless, teens in prison and endangered wolves. It has featured interviews with Janet Reno, Benazir Bhutto and Mikhail Gorbachev--who dropped by Channel One's Hollywood studio for the chat. The news program won a prestigious Peabody Award for its coverage of aids, and in 1994 beat out such network competition as Prime Time Live for an award at the Chicago Film Festival...
Nonetheless, for most of the women who had come from far corners of the earth to express their solidarity, even a damp sojourn under a heavy official hand proved exhilarating. If Clinton did not impress a delegate, perhaps Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto did, or Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who appeared in a specially recorded videotape that was smuggled out of Rangoon...
...easy to downplay the global nature of the problem and focus on just one place. Benazir Bhutto won high praise for using her podium time in Beijing to criticize the Chinese treatment of women. What neither she nor the press mentioned is that in Pakistan, female rape victims are subject to prison sentences for "adultery." Bhutto once promised to end this stunningly malicious practice, but backed off rather than offend the local mullahs...
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73 has given a $100,000 permanent endowment to the Center for Islamic Studies at Harvard Law School (HLS), the Law School news office said yesterday...