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Benazir Bhutto: Pakistan Thursday
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In pushing Benazir Bhutto into this dangerous corner, a corner in which she could not have survived, the US too has shown its gross ineptitude. By openly anointing her as the American candidate, the US had effectively hastened the violent end that she has now met. The US helped to bring about the untimely death of the ‘Daughter of the East’ by transforming her into the ‘Daughter of the West.’ In the process, Pakistan too has lost a flawed but charismatic leader, who might have risen to the occasion at a time of crisis.
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A Scotland Yard inquiry in the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto found that she died from the impact of a suicide bombing, not bullets fired at her moments earlier as she left a political rally. full story
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Bhutto's tumultuous life in politics followed a family tradition that began with her grandfather. The wealthy feudal lord helped clear the way for the creation of Pakistan as an autonomous state for South Asian Muslims in 1947.
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Despite numerous accusations of corruption and an evident predilection for luxury, Ms. Bhutto, the pale-skinned scion of a wealthy landowning family, successfully cast herself as a savior of Pakistan’s millions of poor and disenfranchised. She inspired devotion among her followers, even in exile, and the image of her floating through a frenzied crowd in her gauzy white head scarf became iconic.
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Pakistani security agents have arrested a youth who said he had been trained as a suicide bomber to kill opposition leader Benazir Bhutto had other militants failed to kill her, in the first arrests in the case, a security official said. The 15-year-old and his militant "handler" were arrested in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan. The teen was identified as Aitezaz Shah.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said that a United Nations (UN) probe into the Pakistani ex-premier Benazir Bhuttos assassination could be sought if group of friends, which including European ambassadors recommend a format for such an inquiry. ANI
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