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...deeper fear is that the U.N. inquiry may fail to produce results. Both of Bhutto's brothers, Shahnawaz and Murtaza, were killed years earlier in circumstances that remain disputed. Gen. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the dictator who had her father executed and against whom she vigorously battled, was killed in an as-yet unexplained mid-air explosion. And Liaquat Bagh, the park in Rawalpindi where Bhutto had been speaking moments before the assassins struck, is named after Pakistan's first prime minister who was killed there in chillingly similar circumstances to those Bhutto's murder. This time, Pakistanis hope they...
...dilemma, after eight years of military dictatorship, is that the more he tries to eradicate the Bhutto legend, the more powerful it becomes. Many Pakistanis are still bitter that Zia allowed Prime Minister Bhutto's body to be buried without a member of the family present. When news of Shahnawaz's death reached Pakistan, thousands went to the Bhutto home in Karachi to pay their respects. People burned stacks of an Urdu-language newspaper that suggested Shahnawaz may have died from alcohol and drugs. In Sind province, most business came to a standstill. Some defied the ban on entering Sind...
...Shahnawaz Bhutto was found dead on July 18 in the Cannes apartment where he lived with his Afghan-born wife and three-year-old daughter. French authorities, hoping to ascertain what killed him, did not release the body for three weeks. The delay was attributed partly to the fact that since the burial would be in Pakistan, there would be no further opportunity to conduct forensic tests. Inevitably, Bhutto's sudden and unexplained death spawned rumors of political intrigue, including the possibility that he had been murdered...
After the downfall and death of his father, who was overthrown by Zia in 1977 and subsequently executed, Shahnawaz, the youngest of the four Bhutto children, joined his brother Murtaza in organizing a group called Al-Zulfikar, which was dedicated to overthrowing the Zia regime. It was based in Afghanistan and rumored to have ties to Libya and Syria. Last year the two brothers were convicted in absentia for involvement in the 1981 hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines jet, during which a Pakistani diplomat was killed. Over the past 18 months, Shahnawaz was said to have given...
...main worry was not so much Shahnawaz's funeral as the anticipated return of the former Prime Minister's daughter Benazir, 32, and the emotional welcome she was expected to receive. Benazir, who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, is her father's political heir and the present leader of the P.P.P. After her release from imprisonment and house arrest in 1984, Benazir moved to London and has led the party from exile. Although the P.P.P. has been banned for the past eight years, it is still the most popular party in Pakistan. It is also the dominant member...