Word: bhutto
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...raid, both Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright personally contacted Pakistani President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari to gain his government's approval of the operation. Islamabad's decision to let the U.S. in was politically risky; in 1995 Pakistani government officials, then led by Benazir Bhutto, suffered harsh criticism from local extremists for allowing the U.S. to extradite World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef. Now, however, "they recognize that it's in their own interest to be supportive on terrorism issues like this," says a senior Administration official. "Undoubtedly they are hoping for some improvement in bilateral relations...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: While hundreds of riot police stood guard outside the courthouse, Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to restore her to power without an election. The decision closes a two-month struggle that erupted after President Farooq Leghari dismissed Bhutto amid allegations of corruption and economic mismanagement and then jailed her husband, former Investment Minister Asif Ali Zardari, for accepting massive kickbacks and abusing his position in government. Zardari had earned the nickname "Mr. 40 Percent," the sum he reportedly demanded of potential business contacts, after being acquitted of the same charge...
...second time Bhutto has suffered such an ignominious removal--the military backed her expulsion in 1990. It is also the third time in six years a Pakistani Prime Minister has been kicked out in midterm. While the move is ominous for the fate of democracy, Leghari had other danger signals to consider. In the past few weeks, protests by the country's main Islamic party had torn into major cities, including Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. The cry in the streets was corruption. And in Pakistan the figure most often paired with that word is Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's husband...
...Bhutto and Zardari were charged with corruption after she was dismissed in 1990. But there was never any conclusive evidence, and Zardari was released on bail after more than a year in prison. So while Leghari mentioned corruption in his letter, he had another more troubling reason for his action. Pakistan is chafing under austerities imposed by the International Monetary Fund, which has refused to release a $600 million standby loan if Islamabad cannot remedy its budget deficit in order to service its $28.6 billion in foreign debt. To that end Bhutto had raised taxes--but her government...
...Bhutto has seen her fortunes fall and rise and rise and fall. Recently her image has been tarnished by allegations of her husband's corruption and an unseemly political feud with her mother and brother, who was killed in a police shootout in September. But she retains a haughty sense of her own fate and prerogatives, and if Leghari's complaints do not bar her from running, she will challenge her dismissal at the polls. "I am not one of those leaders who sell lies and buy time," she told TIME recently. "No leader, no dictator could do what...