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...Bhutto’s proudest accomplishments was breaking through the “glass ceiling” as a woman in a Muslim society, she told The Crimson in 1998. Bhutto became the first female prime minister of Pakistan—and of any Islamic country—in 1988 at the age of 35, a position she would hold twice...
...After her second term as prime minister, Bhutto sought refuge in Dubai as an exile, driven out by charges of corruption. She may not have felt engaged while in exile, Fadiman said, leading her back to her home country despite the volatile environment...
...Bhutto returned from exile in October to lead her party in parliamentary elections, which were scheduled for early this year. A sizeable victory for her party would have given her a third tenure as prime minister...
...Fadiman hoped to see her college friend later this year when Bhutto came to the United States with her teenage daughter to visit colleges...
...self-appointed standard bearers of Pakistani democracy, Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari don't inspire much confidence. One is a feudal aristocrat widely reviled as corrupt and blamed for his wife's undoing when she was the country's Prime Minister in the 1990s. The other, their son, is a bookish Oxford undergraduate who talks of democracy but whose political clout derives entirely from his middle name. Yet there they were, three days after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, their beloved wife and mother, proclaiming themselves inheritors of her political fief, the Pakistan People's Party...