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...true democracy. The one-time reformist hope for troubled Pakistanis—opposition leader Benazir Bhutto ’73, long in exile—came to a tragic end in January, when the former Prime Minister was assassinated on campaign in Rawalpindi. The media attention that swirled around Bhutto??s murder only contributed to the chaos, casting her as a Western light swallowed by a dark, anarchic world—in deliberate defiance of the former minister’s unresolved record of corruption and Western responsibility for some of the turmoil...
...think tank,” has experience in “Immaculate Deception Creations tailored to your senses.” His website runs conspiracy theories which suggest that the world is designing a campaign to unseat Musharraf and that the U.S. was behind Benazir Bhutto??s assassination.Mr. Quraishi’s outrageous statements are not a new phenomenon: mouthpieces for collapsing dictators have frequently played their part in promoting propaganda and nonsense. Mohammad Saeed as-Sahaf (MSS), the Iraqi minister of (mis?)information, became famous for claiming in April of 2003 that coalition forces were...
...record as an anti-terrorist crusader is murky, at best. While Bhutto was prime minister, the Pakistani intelligence services helped install the Taliban in Afghanistan. There was also a huge spike in Pakistan’s monetary and strategic support for jehadis in Kashmir during her tenure. While Bhutto??s direct responsibility for both these actions is debatable, they were nonetheless incongruous with the simplistic anti-terrorism crusader image that she later sought to cultivate...
...recent anti-terrorist image was a calculated one. After 9/11, the topography of Pakistani politics dramatically changed, and Islamist political parties grew powerful by feeding on local anger against the pro-American stance of the Musharraf regime. These Islamists parties began to eat into the electoral base of Bhutto??s party. Benazir Bhutto??s recent opposition to Islamists was thus more to do with immediate electoral interests rather than long held political beliefs...
...Bhutto??s international connections helped her rise to power. The U.S. was far more comfortable doing business with Benazir Bhutto than other, more local Pakistani politicians such as Nawaz Sharif. She used her many years in exile to address think-tanks, policy makers and academics in the West, her Harvard credentials underlining her perceived reliability. Newspapers the world over spent more time on her privileged education than the specifics of her rule. Harvard would thus do well to realize the way its brand is used in the rest of the world. Bhutto used it to perpetuate...