Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bhutto and the Bomb...
Newly elected Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Pakistan would continue pursuing its nuclear program, which American officials believe has already produced nuclear weapons. "We will not allow our national interest to be sacrificed," said Bhutto...
...politically motivated. Sidhwa's juxta-positions of late 70s Pakistani politics with Feroza's self-indulgent trip are discovered early on in the book for what they are: forced, gratuitous and very ambitious. This is not to say that Sidhwa's descriptions of the anxieties and emotions surrounding Bhutto's hanging and the return to military rule are flawed; in these scenes, one is reminded constantly of the tenuousness of the political situation in subcontinental countries. Rather, it is questionable whether these scenes belong in a book that is, for the most part, about Feroza's self-discovery in America...
...referring to the outcome of balloting for Pakistan's four powerful provincial assemblies, which got under way at week's end. Hostile provincial administrations have the power to unite, confining the authority of the national government to virtually within the capital district of Islamabad. As it is, support for Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif reflects the regional divisons that have undermined national stability and independence since 1947. Bhutto's votes came largely from her native province, Sind, where her family retains large landholdings, and from the rural areas of populous Punjab. Naqaz Sharif scored a virtual clean sweep in the largest...
Neither leadership candidate offered clear solutions for Pakistan's slow economic growth, heavy debt repayments, endemic poverty, proliferating crime and a growing drug culture. Tackling any one of these problems will require strong will and strong political support. No one doubts that Bhutto has the will, but no one is betting that she will be able to muster the second vital ingredient...