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...Musharraf's grip on power as much as the jihadist insurgency that has made parts of the country ungovernable. The lawyers' demonstrations exposed Musharraf's growing unpopularity among his own people. Musharraf had hoped to salvage some legitimacy by entering an ill-fated partnership with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. (Ahsan is a member of her Pakistan People's Party [PPP], but she didn't support the lawyers' movement.) Bhutto was already backing away from a power-sharing deal when she was assassinated on Dec. 27. Now the PPP and other opposition groups are expected...
...necessarily a bad thing. "The weapons to fight the war on terrorism are an empowered people who are assured that no man can arbitrarily impose his will upon their lives," he says. But he worries that ordinary Pakistanis will not be empowered by the Feb. 18 vote. Bhutto's widower Asif Zardari has pointedly refused to rule out a postelection understanding with Musharraf, and any such deal would be a blow to Ahsan's quest to reinstate the sacked judges. If the Bush Administration encourages such a deal, Ahsan says, it would be going against its promises to promote democracy...
...Benazir Bhutto was as much a part of Pakistan’s problems as Harvard was part of hers. Vinay Sitapati ’08 is an LL.M. Candidate at Harvard Law School...
...real Benazir Bhutto embodied two of Pakistan’s biggest ills: the perpetual protection of feudal interests, and a democratic process plagued by nepotism and corruption. It is this democracy deficit that both the Pakistani army and the Islamists are currently exploiting. But like the audience offering blind adulation at the Kennedy School in 1997, the world press and Harvard have chosen to ignore her past, focusing instead on what Bhutto symbolized to the West, not what she was to her own people...
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...