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Under Zia's rule, the U.S. enjoyed good diplomatic relations with the strategically located Muslim nation. When Bhutto--the daughter of the late Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto--first came to power, many were unsure what her policy toward the U.S. would be, because her father had not aligned the country's policies with the West. But most believe the initial signs from Bhutto have been good...
...Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founded the Pakistan People's Party. In 1977, after a landslide victory in the last previous free election, Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq ousted him in a coup...
...Stand up to the challenge. Fight against overwhelming odds. Overcome the enemy." The late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto regularly exhorted his eldest daughter with such maxims. Benazir proved to be a keen listener. "In the stories my father had told us over and over again," she writes in her new autobiography, Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of the East, "good always triumphed over evil...
...Supreme Court decision followed the mysterious death of Zia in an airplane explosion in August, eleven years after he seized power. The elections will give Bhutto the long-awaited opportunity to return her party to the ruling position it held from 1971 until 1977, when Zia overthrew her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in a coup. Zia subsequently permitted Bhutto's execution to take place...
Bhutto's father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, won the last open election in 1977 by a landslide and prompted a coup by Gen. Zia. Bhutto was convicted of complicity in a murder conspiracy and hanged...