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...recent speeches Bhutto has promised that tackling terrorism in Pakistan, which has hit this southern port city the hardest, will be her first priority if she becomes Prime Minister again in general elections slated for January. Her arrival, and a proposed power sharing deal with President General Pervez Musharraf, may actually make things worse...
GENERAL PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, on winning 98% of the parliamentary votes in a re-election bid that many boycotted to protest his candidacy while serving as army chief...
...course, Bhutto will need much more than that to restore her image as a tireless campaigner against military rule. The Harvard graduate is heading back to Pakistan only after the increasingly unpopular President Pervez Musharraf granted her amnesty as part of a power-sharing agreement--announced two days before he won the Oct. 6 election--that has infuriated opposition activists. Musharraf's landslide victory was largely due to Bhutto's party members following her directive to abstain from voting. That gave the general, who came to power in 1999 in a bloodless coup and still holds the title of army...
Even so, many think she is the best hope for loosening Musharraf's dictatorial grip on the government. Her supporters seem willing to overlook the fact that her previous stints in power were tainted by human-rights abuses and widespread corruption. During her tenure, Amnesty International accused Pakistan of having one of the worst records of extrajudicial killings, torture and custodial deaths, and in 1996 Transparency International named the country the second most corrupt in the world. (Nigeria came in first, locals quip, because Pakistan bribed the corruption-monitoring organization.) But faith, hope and loyalty still run strong in Sind...
GARHI DOPATTA, PAKISTAN Copter escorting Musharraf crashes...