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...corruption, which she contends were politically motivated. "She has disgraced the Bhutto name," says clan patriarch Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, who considers her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai an attempt to escape her sins. "The stigma will stay forever." Not to worry, insists the tomb's custodian, Muhammad Issa. "We will whitewash the walls before she returns," he says...
...still run strong in Sind, where much of the population is uneducated and depends on landlords, employers and party leaders to tell them for whom to vote. If Bhutto had to make a deal with Musharraf to return to Pakistan, her followers say, then perhaps she knows best. Says Muhammad Ali Sheikh, a Larkana shopkeeper: "If Benazir got a horse and told people to vote for the horse, we would line up to vote for the horse." Even Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, Benazir's fiercest critic, says he plans to vote for her in the parliamentary elections scheduled for January...
...course, the two worlds can meet. Afghan Shah Muhammad Rais claimed that his portrayal as a domestic tyrant in the global best seller The Bookseller of Kabul by Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad exposed him to dishonor. So he did a very Western thing, suing Seierstad for defamation in Norway. Then he went one better: Rais now has a deal with a Norwegian publisher for a book of his own. A spot on Oprah has to be next...
...this the same mentality that Westerners fault - indeed, ridicule - in Muslims who are offended by references to Muhammad? The old saying "What's good for the goose is good for the gander" comes to mind. Jeanette F. Huber Kinsale, Ireland...
...tribal leaders dictate how their people vote. In keeping with this tradition, many of these voters don't question Benazir's judgment in cutting deals with Musharraf, or anything else. "If Benazir got a horse, and told people to vote for the horse," says 27-year-old Larkana shopkeeper Muhammad Ali Sheikh, "we would line up to vote for the horse...