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Peter W. Galbraith '73, a close friend of Bhutto, said she told him in a telephone conversation yesterday morning that the army had surrounded her home after President Ghulam Ishaq Khan legally dissolved her democratically elected government...
...introduce bills that might prove acceptable to all parties. Considering the extravagant promises of the party manifesto and Pakistan's abysmal poverty and appalling 77% illiteracy rate, there is little time to waste. To make matters worse, Bhutto has expended much of her energy on disputes with President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, a cautious civil servant who was close...
Elation exploded in the cities of Pakistan last week. As Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan announced that Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People's Party, would become the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country, chanting crowds surged through the streets, and fireworks lighted the sky. Excitement rose to fever pitch as Bhutto, 35, was sworn in at the presidential compound in Islamabad...
President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said in a televised address that Bhutto had "the best qualities of leadership and foresight as a statesman...
Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan is not bound to invite Bhutto to form a government. But it is hard to imagine his sidestepping her without unleashing a furious reaction. Bhutto handily won all three National Assembly seats she contested (two of which will have to be filled in by-elections), and her party was carried to victory mainly on the strength of her blazing speeches and dazzling charisma. Standing in a convoy of speeding jeeps, her head held high and covered with a colorful dupatta, or scarf, this 35-year-old Western- educated wife and mother attracted frenzied adulation...