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...pledged to deliver the same kind of punishments imposed on India. The effects on Islamabad -- still saddled with sanctions for trading missiles with China -- will be exponentially greater. And that's not counting the crippling cost of a now inevitable subcontinental arms race. Back in 1974, Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto vowed his country would go nuclear even if his people had to "eat grass." Now the nukes are a reality, and the grass diet may be just around the corner...
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...
Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, who was the first woman to lead an Islamic state, spoke in 1989. She is the daughter of deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto, who was overthrown in a military coup by Gen. Zia ul-Haq and later executed...
...most bitter rival, who was assassinated in August 1983; Chamorro is the widow of Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the newspaper publisher whose murder in 1978 led to the downfall of the brutal Anastasio Somoza regime. During her 1988 election campaign, Bhutto never ceased alluding to the legacy of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed in 1979 by the military government she was then fighting to succeed. She titled her autobiography Daughter of Destiny. Ousted in a constitutional coup in August, Bhutto may once again raise the rhetoric of martyrdom and rally her followers to the banner of her descent...
Before voting, she visited her father's grave. Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was overthrown in a bloodless coup in 1977 and was hanged two years later...