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Analysis of Benazir Bhutto
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1988-1996) was assassinated December 27, 2007, just two months after returning to Pakistan from a 10-year exile.
Ms. Bhutto was educated at Harvard and Oxford, having acquired degrees from each. She maintained a more Western liberal outlook, with a platform of spreading democracy and routing corruption, crime and fundamentalist extremism in her country. Her father, also a previous Prime Minister, was hanged, and her two brothers were murdered, forcing her to take over the Pakistan People’s Party. She spent many years either in exile or under house arrest for her political inheritance. Read the rest of this entry »