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...kind as to fill out a survey on my stay in Pakistan? The previous week had been eventful, to say the least. I landed in Lahore on Thursday, Dec. 27. As I left the airport for my hotel, my cell phone pinged with an SMS from my wife: "Bhutto dead in Rawalpindi blast." The following few days were a bit of a blur, and then on New Year's Eve I fell sick with some intestinal bug that took two days to beat. "I'm not sure I'm the best person to help you," I told...
Scotland Yard assists in Bhutto investigation...
...press conference took place on a date originally scheduled for Pakistan's general election, which has now been delayed for six weeks following Bhutto's assassination. Accusing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf of a cover-up, Bhutto Zardari called for a United Nations-led investigation into his mother's death, claiming that the current team of British investigators does not have "the necessary transparency." In perhaps his most composed moment, he answered a question about how the United States should conduct its policy toward Pakistan, saying "Dictatorships feed extremism and once the United States stops supporting dictators we can tackle...
...Before Bhutto Zardari is even old enough to run for office (he must be 25, according to Pakistani law), the country faces an ongoing political crisis. Opposition politicians have accused Musharraf of delaying the election in an attempt to avoid a wave of sympathy votes for the PPP that might hurt the incumbent Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam, which supports Musharraf. And while relative order has been restored to the Pakistan streets since protests rocked much of the country following Bhutto's death, a deep uncertainty surrounds the upcoming elections. All the while, lawlessness and the accompanying influence...
...Repeatedly during the press conference, when pushed about the legitimacy of becoming the titular head of the PPP, Bhutto Zardari returned to an apocalyptic theme. "There was a moment of crisis," he said of his appointment. "Pakistan was burning. We needed to show a united front...