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...people due to a broadcast ban, Bhutto demonstrated the passionate and stirring oratorical flair that was the hallmark of her campaign against another military dictator nearly 20 years ago. Then she was fighting the regime of Zia ul Haq, the military dictator who deposed, then hanged, her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the PPP. "My fellow Pakistanis," she shouted through a megaphone. "Our great country is under threat. I have not been served any arrest warrants, so technically I am free, but I am being physically prevented from leaving by barbed wire and blockades. This barbed wire...
...door chanting "Long Live Bhutto." "He was crazy," says his aunt, Anipa Banno. "The party never did anything for him, but he believed in their slogan, 'Bread, Shelter and Clothes.' He was a party diehard." Bhutto had fled Pakistan when her father, former President and Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was toppled in a military coup and later executed. But she went back to pick up her father's mantle as head of the PPP, and eventually led the party to election victory, becoming the world's first woman to head a modern Muslim nation. Like many in the sprawling...
Aware of the threats against her, scores of young men wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Suicide Sacrificers for Benazir" formed a human security cordon. The Suicide Sacrificers took their volunteer security jobs seriously. "Benazir is the daughter of our great leader [PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto], and he was executed by the army," said 20-year-old student Sheikh Ahad as he waited for her plane to touch down. "Her brothers have been killed. She has sacrificed her family for Pakistan, and now she is sacrificing her own self for the poor of this country...
...crowd were fans. Raheel Iqbal, the former information secretary for the Karachi wing of the People's party said that Bhutto had betrayed her father's cause. "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's manifesto was anti-imperialist, anti-general and anti dictatorship. We spent years in jail to stand up for this manifesto, and now Benazir arrives with American support, and has been making meetings with General Musharraf. Democracy does not require a deal with a dictator." Bhutto has returned to Pakistan with the tacit support of President General Pervez Musharraf, who took power in 1999. Bhutto and Musharraf have been negotiating...
...tomb of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the populist Pakistani President who was overthrown in a military coup and executed in 1979, looms over the poverty-stricken salt marshes of rural Sind province. From a distance, the hulking mausoleum resembles a plasticine model of the Taj Mahal squeezed onto too small a foundation. Before Bhutto--who founded the Pakistan People's Party--was hanged, he had requested nothing more than a humble marble slab to mark his grave. But in Pakistani politics, image is everything. It's a lesson Benazir Bhutto learned at her father's knee. Hence her decision a dozen...