Word: larkana
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...Bhutto herself ran for two seats. She overwhelmingly won reelection in Larkana in southern Sind Province but suffered a humiliating defeat in the northern city of Peshawar, losing by nearly 12,000 votes...
...victory the PPP achieved is because of the selfless sacrifices, the struggle by people of the PPP," Bhutto said at a news conference after a rally of 8,000 people on the lawn of her family home in the southern city of Larkana...
...grim homecoming. The 32- year-old graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities returned to Pakistan last week after 19 months of self-imposed exile in Britain. With her she brought the body of her brother Shahnawaz to be buried at the family cemetery near Larkana (pop. 123,000) in Sind province. Shahnawaz, 27, the youngest of Bhutto's four children, was found dead in his French Riviera apartment on July 18. He had once helped organize a terrorist group dedicated to overthrowing the regime of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, and the Bhutto family insists that he was murdered...
About 10,000 cheering supporters greeted Benazir when she arrived from Karachi at Larkana's Moenjodaro airstrip near the Bhutto family compound. She was received warmly along an 18-mile motorcade route into the city by peasants waving black flags of mourning as well as the red, black and green banner of the outlawed Pakistan People's Party, which her father founded and which remains the most popular party in Pakistan. Final prayers for her brother, held in a Larkana sports stadium, were attended by an estimated 25,000 people, many of whom cheered, "Long live Benazir!" Several thousand more...
...hands were tied behind his back. Stepping to the gallows he cried out, according to one account, "Oh Lord, help me, for I am innocent!" Thirty-five minutes later, the body was cut down, taken away to a waiting air force plane and flown to the town of Larkana, 200 miles northeast of Karachi. There, in his family's burial plot, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 51, the most popular civilian politician to come to power in Pakistan's 32 years of independence, was hastily interred last week before the country was told of his death...