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...After her second term as prime minister, Bhutto sought refuge in Dubai as an exile, driven out by charges of corruption. She may not have felt alive while in exile, Fadiman said, leading her back to her home country despite the volatile environment...
...Bhutto returned from exile in October to lead her party in parliamentary elections, which are scheduled for Jan. 8. A sizeable victory for her party would have allowed her a third tenure as prime minister...
...terror. Those purported attempts produced near-misses at best. Similarly, Taliban extremists have tried and failed to assassinate Western-backed President Hamid Karzai in neighboring Afghanistan. In 2004, three extremists were arrested in Germany on accusations they were planning to assassinate Iraq's visiting Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi. And just last September, a member of Algeria's al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb killed 22 people in a suicide bombing that had as its primary target Algerian President Abdulaziz Bouteflika. The Algerian President survived...
...relatives in Pakistan, so every conversation about Bhutto is laced with the fear that her death could throw the country into civil war. Some feel that even now, the general election scheduled for Jan. 8 should go ahead, as an essential first step in the political healing process. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who yesterday called Bhutto a "woman of immense personal courage and bravery," today announced that he had encouraged Pakistan's President Perez Musharraf to push ahead with the elections, as much as an act of defiance against terrorism as one of democracy. "This was a cowardly terrorist...
...Britain's High Commission for Pakistan, where the Pakistani flag will fly at half-mast for three days in mourning, diplomatic official Manzoor ul-Haq echoed the Prime Minister's sentiments, saying he thinks the elections should - and will - continue as planned. "The people of Pakistan have great courage," he says, "and they will be able to bring everything under control. We appeal to the people of Pakistan to remain calm. The election process should continue and be allowed to reach its logical conclusion...