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Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto meets family members of a victim of last Friday's suicide bombing, at her residence in Karachi October 21, 2007. Bhutto called on the government on Sunday to seek foreign help in investigating last week's suicide bombing aimed at killing her on her return after eight years of exile.
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Shortly after Bhutto returned as prime minister in 1993, a Pakistani bullion trader in Dubai, Abdul Razzak Yaqub, proposed a deal: in return for the exclusive right to import gold, Razzak would help the government regularize the trade. In November 1994, Pakistan's Commerce Ministry wrote to Razzak informing him that he had been granted a license that made him, for at least the next two years, Pakistan's sole authorized gold importer. In an interview in his office in Dubai, Razzak acknowledged that he had used the license to import more than $500 million in gold into Pakistan, and that he had travelled to Islamabad several times to meet with Bhutto and Zardari. But he denied that there had been any corruption or secret deals. "I have not paid a single cent to Zardari," he said. Razzak claims that someone in Pakistan who wished to destroy his reputation had contrived to have his company wrongly identified as the depositor.
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In October 1993, following the joint resignations of Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Bhutto was again elected prime minister. However, in 1996 her government was once again dismissed by the president amid allegations of corruption. New elections in 1997 brought only a small number of seats to the PPP, ruining Bhutto’s chances of regaining her former position. Bhutto faced multiple corruption charges, which she denounced as politically motivated. She went into self-imposed exile in 1999 shortly after being convicted for failing to appear in court. The Supreme Court of Pakistan overturned the conviction in 2001.
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In 1988, at the age of 35, Bhutto was elected prime minister of Pakistan, becoming the youngest world leader and the first female prime minister in the Muslim world. After 20 months, a rival political party ousted her government; ... Bhutto was reelected in 1993. During her time in office, she emphasized the need to heal past wounds and to put an end to the divisions in Pakistani society - including reducing discrimination between men and women. She also launched a nationwide program of health and education reform.
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In 1993, Bhutto again became prime minister. Now a more seasoned politician, she made alliances, including those with the military, that enabled her to deal with some of Pakistan's deep-seated problems. In Nov., 1996, though, her government was again dismissed. Zadari was accused of murdering Bhutto's brother, a political rival, as well as of accepting kickbacks, and was imprisoned; sweeping corruption charges were brought against Bhutto. In 1999, Bhutto and Zadari were both convicted of corruption; Bhutto appealed the verdict while living in exile in England and the United Arab Emirates. In 2001 the Pakistani Supreme Court set aside the corruption charges facing Bhutto and Zadari and ordered their retrial, but a Swiss court convicted the couple of money laundering in 2003.
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Bhutto says she first heard the name Osama bin Laden in 1989, when he sent $10 million to the ISI, Pakistan’s infamous intelligence service, to help it overthrow her first government. The ISI has close ties to radical Islamists and was responsible for the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan. America’s CIA, which ... supported the Afghan holy warriors in their guerrilla struggle against the Soviet Union in the 1980s, continues to work with the ISI today—theoretically in suppressing the very terrorist legions it helped to create.
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