Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite charges of corruption and mismanagement leveled against her, Benazir Bhutto and her Pakistan People's Party were confident of winning at the polls last week. They bought victory advertisements in the newspapers even before the results were known. The ads appeared next morning, but Bhutto's victory did not. The surprise runaway winner was the Islamic Democratic Alliance, a loose coalition of eight, mostly right-leaning parties, most of which sat in opposition to the former Prime Minister during her 20 months in power. The winners captured 105 of the 216 seats contested for the National Assembly, while Bhutto...
...results came in, Bhutto charged fraud. "I am angry and shocked," she said, "at the way the elections have been rigged." But those allegations have received little endorsement so far from two international poll-watching teams. Said interim Prime Minister and Islamic Democratic Alliance leader Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi: "We cannot depend on the whims and fantasies of a young lady, attractive though she may be for the media at home and abroad. The country has given its verdict...
...Western-educated Ms. Bhutto became the first woman leader of a modern Moslem nation in December 1988 following the first free elections in Pakistan after a decade of military rule...
...Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, also ran for two seats and she said he lost both races...
...People's Party and three smaller allied parties were pitted against the Islamic Democratic Alliance, a loose-knit coalition of 18 parties united by their dislike for Ms. Bhutto but strained by individual ambitions...