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...Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister who was executed in 1979, it was a grim homecoming. The 32- year-old graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities returned to Pakistan last week after 19 months of self-imposed exile in Britain. With her she brought the body of her brother Shahnawaz to be buried at the family cemetery near Larkana (pop. 123,000) in Sind province. Shahnawaz, 27, the youngest of Bhutto's four children, was found dead in his French Riviera apartment on July 18. He had once helped organize a terrorist group dedicated...
About 10,000 cheering supporters greeted Benazir when she arrived from Karachi at Larkana's Moenjodaro airstrip near the Bhutto family compound. She was received warmly along an 18-mile motorcade route into the city by peasants waving black flags of mourning as well as the red, black and green banner of the outlawed Pakistan People's Party, which her father founded and which remains the most popular party in Pakistan. Final prayers for her brother, held in a Larkana sports stadium, were attended by an estimated 25,000 people, many of whom cheered, "Long live Benazir!" Several thousand more...
...Benazir, who is regarded as the heir to her father's leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, spent three years under house arrest in Pakistan before being allowed to travel to Britain. Zia allowed her to return only on condition that Shahnawaz's funeral not be used to rally antigovernment sentiment. The regime ordered an extraordinary show of force at Karachi airport for the arrival of the plane from Zurich bearing Benazir and her brother's remains. Nearly 1,000 heavily armed Pakistani security personnel, backed by armored paramilitary vehicles, set up roadblocks...
...person who retains much of the charisma of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the fiery and popular Prime Minister who was overthrown by Zia in 1977 and later executed (on the charge of being implicated in the murder of the father of a political opponent). That figure is Benazir Bhutto, 31, daughter of the late Prime Minister and today the acting head of her father's Pakistan People's Party. She has been in self-imposed exile in London for the past year. Pakistani police have gone to extraordinary effort to see to it that Bhutto did not try to return during...
...refused to set a specific date for fear of civil unrest and has shunted potential military rivals to the sidelines. But countless Pakistanis still hold him responsible for Bhutto's execution by hanging in 1979 after a show trial. Bhutto's Radcliffe-educated daughter Benazir, 29, remains under house arrest because her public appearance anywhere in Pakistan could instantly send thousands of her late father's supporters into the streets...