Word: zardari
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...Married Estate The sentencing of exiled former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, for money laundering [MILESTONES, Aug. 18-25] was the latest turn of events for the controversial couple, who have long faced accusations of financial misconduct. TIME reported the couple's unlikely engagement when it was announced 16 years ago [WORLD...
...SENTENCED. BENAZIR BHUTTO, 50, exiled former Pakistan Prime Minister, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, to six-months' suspended jail time and a $500,000 fine each for money laundering; by a Swiss magistrate; in Geneva. The ruling orders the couple to reimburse Pakistan $11 million...
...Party (PPP), joined the fray. In a challenge to Musharraf, Bhutto was prepared to cast aside her pro-Western views and instruct her party to back the Islamic religious parties' candidate for Prime Minister, Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Musharraf moved fast. First, his aides released Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari from his hospital jail, where he had been held on charges of corruption, and allowed him to visit his dying mother in Karachi...
...stage, a government source says, Musharraf's political fixers tried to win over Bhutto by offering to drop corruption charges against her and her husband. Under the deal, the insider says, Zardari would be freed and sent into exile while Bhutto would be allowed back into Pakistan after two years to resume politics. In the end, losing ppp candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi has alleged publicly, Musharraf turned to simpler tactics: using threats and bribes to persuade a few of Bhutto's assemblymen to switch loyalties and vote for Jamali. --By Tim McGirk
...wants the U.S. forces kicked out of Pakistani military bases. Having Rehman as Prime Minister would have been tough to explain to Washington, so Musharraf moved fast. His political fixers tried to rope in Bhutto by agreeing to drop corruption charges against her and her jailed husband, Asif Ali Zardari. Under the deal, insiders say, Zardari would have been freed and sent into exile, while Bhutto herself would have been allowed back into Pakistan after two years to resume her political career. In the end, it was easier, and politically cheaper, for Musharraf's party to convince several of Bhutto...