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...only did Pakistani authorities fail to provide former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto the security that could have saved her life, but elements within the powerful military establishment may even have played a role in her December 2007 assassination. Those are some of the chilling conclusions of a U.N. inquiry, published Friday, April 16, into the killing that rocked Pakistan in the final months in power of former military ruler President Pervez Musharraf...
Eliot House alumni include conductor Leonard Bernstein '39 and former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto '73 (who was originally a resident of Cabot). Eliot was also home to one of Harvard's more infamous alumni: Theodore J. Kaczynski '62, widely known as the Unabomber, called this River House home during his undergraduate years...
...earlier version of this post stated that former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was a resident of Cabot House, not Eliot House. In fact, Bhutto lived in Cabot House first, then later moved to Eliot House...
Islamabad politicians and diplomats say that the military opposes any measure that might boost the current President, who was swept into power in 2008 on a sympathy vote for his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, assassinated the previous year. Zardari has been dogged by old corruption charges and his current administration has proved highly unpopular, allowing the army to take a commanding role in security and foreign affairs, and that includes dealing with Washington.(See the difficulties Pakistani journalists had covering the Siddiqui trial...
Monday's bombing comes at a sensitive time for Pakistan, as President Asif Ali Zardari appears to be battling for his political survival. A day earlier, while marking the second anniversary of the slaying of his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Zardari raised a defiantly worded warning that democracy was imperiled. Since the Supreme Court earlier this month struck down an amnesty that had cleared Zardari and some of his closest aides of long-standing corruption charges, pressure has increased on the presidential palace, slowly eating away at the occupant's authority and raising the prospect of a destabilizing...