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...hypocrisy and ambivalence of the West. Many Westerners are indifferent to the brutalities of the Algerian government because they justifiably fear that a takeover by the Islamists will mean savage beheadings, amputations and unfair treatment of women and minorities. The irony is that similar laws were instituted by General Zia ul-Haq in Pakistan, whose government had the full blessings of the West. The only way to defuse the situation in Algeria is to hold a free general election and require the Islamic Salvation Front to renounce extremism...
...decision to attend the conference. Sadik knew that Bhutto's absence could be especially damaging. Not only was she to deliver a keynote speech, but she would also be the only female head of a Muslim country in attendance. Prime Ministers Tansu Ciller of Turkey and Begum Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh had both backed out, although their countries were still sending delegations. Herself a Pakistani Muslim, Sadik reassured Bhutto's Foreign Secretary that "all opposing views would be discussed" at the conference. At week's end Islamabad reaffirmed Bhutto's commitment to be in Cairo...
...bullets at the 63-year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the dictator who had sent her husband to the very grave she was now barred from visiting...
Such is the sorry state of Pakistan's ruling dynasty on the 66th anniversary of the birth of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat's husband, Benazir's father and Pakistan's Prime Minister before General Zia had him hanged in 1979. The rift is not just mother against daughter, but also brother against sister. Accused of terrorism by the Zia regime, Murtaza Bhutto, 39, Nusrat's eldest son, has been in jail since November. After 16 years of exile abroad, he came home to claim a provincial seat he had won in absentia in the same elections that brought his older...
...example, a Japanese exchange student killed in California was left dead with his wallet and belongings, yet the police still insisted it was an attempted robbery rather than a hate crime, said Helen Zia, former executive editor of Ms. magazine and currently director of an Asian women's shelter...