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...prospective bridegroom is Asif Ali Zardari, 34, a handlebar-mustached building contractor and polo player. Like Bhutto, he is a member of a landowning family from Sind province. His father, once a supporter of Prime Minister Bhutto, remains active in opposition politics. The Zardari family reportedly broached the subject of marriage to Benazir's mother and aunt last year. Benazir and Asif subsequently met at a dinner party, but they did not get together again until two weeks ago, in London. Five days later the marriage plans were announced...
...grim homecoming. The 32- year-old graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities returned to Pakistan last week after 19 months of self-imposed exile in Britain. With her she brought the body of her brother Shahnawaz to be buried at the family cemetery near Larkana (pop. 123,000) in Sind province. Shahnawaz, 27, the youngest of Bhutto's four children, was found dead in his French Riviera apartment on July 18. He had once helped organize a terrorist group dedicated to overthrowing the regime of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, and the Bhutto family insists that he was murdered...
Aside from the potential for Soviet agents to stir separatist sentiments in the Pakistan provinces of Baluchistan and Sind, the area of greatest danger is the North-West Frontier province, where 30,000 troops of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps form a thin defense line. For the moment, the prospect seems to be intensified bombing and occasional hot pursuit, though probably no major Soviet incursion into Pakistan. Says a Western diplomat based in Pakistan: "The Soviets will take every opportunity they can find --and there are many--for subversive operations. It has become a very dirty and deadly game...
...spellbinding orator who conveyed the image of a populist reformer, Bhutto was the son of a wealthy landowner from Sind province. After earning degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and from Oxford, where he cultivated a taste for fine tailoring and vintage wines, he began his career as a delegate to the U.N. As Foreign Minister in the military government of General Muhammed Ayub Khan, he helped fashion Pakistan's policy of friendship with China. After his country's humiliating defeat in the war that led to independence for Bangladesh, Bhutto, who had quit the Cabinet...
...motives of Masood Mahmood, former chief of the now disbanded F.S.F., who had turned state's evidence. But the court also split along ominous lines for a country torn by regional rivalries. The three dissenting judges who voted to free Bhutto came from his native province of Sind and two provinces bordering troubled Afghanistan and Iran. The four judges in the majority are from Punjab, where middle-class revulsion against Bhutto's autocratic rule was strongest...