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...exuberance of Pakistanis was understandable. Their country is drowning in $32 billion of foreign debt, and Sharif had behaved like a petty tyrant. "People were so fed up," said former President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari. "They thought a weight had been taken off them...
...White House also played a role. Sources tell TIME that on the days leading up to the raid, both Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright personally contacted Pakistani President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari to gain his government's approval of the operation. Islamabad's decision to let the U.S. in was politically risky; in 1995 Pakistani government officials, then led by Benazir Bhutto, suffered harsh criticism from local extremists for allowing the U.S. to extradite World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef. Now, however, "they recognize that it's in their own interest to be supportive on terrorism issues like...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: While hundreds of riot police stood guard outside the courthouse, Pakistan's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to restore her to power without an election. The decision closes a two-month struggle that erupted after President Farooq Leghari dismissed Bhutto amid allegations of corruption and economic mismanagement and then jailed her husband, former Investment Minister Asif Ali Zardari, for accepting massive kickbacks and abusing his position in government. Zardari had earned the nickname "Mr. 40 Percent," the sum he reportedly demanded of potential business contacts, after being acquitted of the same charge...
Bhutto and Zardari were charged with corruption after she was dismissed in 1990. But there was never any conclusive evidence, and Zardari was released on bail after more than a year in prison. So while Leghari mentioned corruption in his letter, he had another more troubling reason for his action. Pakistan is chafing under austerities imposed by the International Monetary Fund, which has refused to release a $600 million standby loan if Islamabad cannot remedy its budget deficit in order to service its $28.6 billion in foreign debt. To that end Bhutto had raised taxes--but her government...
...rise and fall. Recently her image has been tarnished by allegations of her husband's corruption and an unseemly political feud with her mother and brother, who was killed in a police shootout in September. But she retains a haughty sense of her own fate and prerogatives, and if Leghari's complaints do not bar her from running, she will challenge her dismissal at the polls. "I am not one of those leaders who sell lies and buy time," she told TIME recently. "No leader, no dictator could do what I have done...