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...senior PPP official had told TIME late Saturday that Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, would likely be named as her political heir and the new party leader on Sunday. PPP members met this morning to discuss the party's future and to give Bilawal, a student at Oxford, a chance to read his mother's last will and testament...
...Bhutto showed both "extremely young innocence" and a mature, cosmopolitan worldview, Fadiman said. She was also a skilled orator, eventually becoming the first Asian female president of the Oxford Union, a prestigious debating forum, during her graduate studies...
...Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, the Pakistani-born Bishop of Rochester, warns against underestimating the Pakistani people. A longtime friend of Bhutto's, who met her when she first came to Britain in the 1970s to study at Oxford - "she used to refer to me half in jest as her favorite bishop," he laughs, "but I don't know how many bishops she knew" - Bishop Michael points out that Bhutto was very aware of the threats against her life. "But she faced a dilemma. She could have ensconced herself behind high walls and armored vehicles, but that would mean losing touch...
...been elected to office. Still, she stood out as a powerful figure in the dining hall of Elliot House, where she lived, and she displayed a passion for international politics that went beyond the antiwar rhetoric that passed for political discourse in those days. Later at Oxford, where we both ended up as grad students, she became even more intensely political. The summit of student politics there is the presidency of the Oxford Union, the venerable debating society, and she viewed it as her mission to become the first Asian woman in that post. She lost her first campaign...
...earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Bhutto's election to the presidency of the Oxford Union happened after her father was overthrown...