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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Apr. 11, 1994 | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Islamabad -- A staunch advocate of family planning in her overpopulated homeland, Pakistan's Prime Minister, BENAZIR BHUTTO, appears not to be heeding her own advice. Although the steamy tropical summer has arrived, Bhutto, 40, has taken to wearing coats or heavy gowns in an effort to hide her eight-month pregnancy; the baby is supposed to "announce itself" later this month. Not surprisingly, Pakistan's favorite pun plays off Bhutto's party initials, P.P.P. (Pakistan People's Party): with three children already, she's known as the "Perpetually Pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Apr. 11, 1994 | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...Benazir Bhutto tenderly sprinkled red and yellow flowers on her father's marble tomb last week, the scene amounted to only a brief respite from a family feud of royal proportions. Just minutes earlier, Pakistani national police had prevented her mother from making the same gesture -- by firing tear gas and bullets at the 63-year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mommie Dearest | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

Such is the sorry state of Pakistan's ruling dynasty on the 66th anniversary of the birth of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat's husband, Benazir's father and Pakistan's Prime Minister before General Zia had him hanged in 1979. The rift is not just mother against daughter, but also brother against sister. Accused of terrorism by the Zia regime, Murtaza Bhutto, 39, Nusrat's eldest son, has been in jail since November. After 16 years of exile abroad, he came home to claim a provincial seat he had won in absentia in the same elections that brought his older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mommie Dearest | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...Benazir has spurned her mother's entreaties to get the charges against Murtaza dismissed. She has not even visited her sibling in prison. Last month she talked the central executive committee of the Pakistan People's Party, founded by her father, into dropping her mother from her post as party chairperson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mommie Dearest | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

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