Pakistan Opposition Leader and advocate for democracy in Pakistan, Ms Benazir Bhutto, was killed on Thursday as she left a political rally in the lead-up to national elections scheduled for 6 January."Smart, ambitious and resilient, she endured her father’s execution and her own imprisonment at the hands of a military dictator to become the country’s — and the Muslim world’s — first female leader. A deeply polarizing figure, Ms. Bhutto, the “daughter of Pakistan,” was twice elected prime minister and twice expelled from office in a swirl of corruption charges that propelled her into self-imposed exile in London for much of the past decade. She returned home this fall, billing herself as a bulwark against Islamic extremism and a tribune of democracy." (NYT 28 Dec 2007)
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