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Bhutto was hailed as a hero in 1988 after she became the first woman to lead a modern Moslem nation, restoring democracy to Pakistan after 11 years of military rule under Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Last year, she spoke at Harvard's Commencement, where she was awarded an honorary degree...
...Galbraith said that Ishaq Khan, whom hecalled an "old protege" of Zia ul-Haq, had opposedBhutto since her election...
Benazir Bhutto was one of the best political stories of the 1980s. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she rallied from imprisonment and exile to return to Pakistan in 1986 and confront General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the country's military ruler and the man who executed her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. When Zia's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1988 opened the way for Pakistan's first regular elections in a decade, Bhutto, only 35 and the mother of a two-month-old son, led her father's Pakistan People's Party through a raucous campaign...
...heavily in lives and money to take and hold the Saltoro, it would be politically difficult for Gandhi to yield even part of the territory to Pakistan, especially with national elections only months away. Bhutto is in an even more sensitive position. Having once taunted late President Mohammed % Zia ul-Haq, her predecessor, for losing the territory in the first place, she now faces poisonous criticism from opposition leaders who accuse her of "submission" to India. In the end, both Gandhi and Bhutto will have to stare down their political antagonists in order to agree on a boundary line across...
Throughout the speech, Bhutto pointed to her experiences in Pakistan, praising international response to the dictatorship which her regime succeeds. Bhutto was elected prime minister in December, four months after the sudden death of General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq...