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“... lesson in the slipperiness of the concept of heroism, and the folly of hero-worship’. Unlike Benazir Bhutto, say, or Havel, Suu Kyi has never been a natural politician with an eye for strategy. She has never been very interested in politics. As the daughter of General Aung San, she had public life thrust upon her in 1988 when seasoned activists like ...”

“... before long be at each other’s throats. His advice was conveyed to Pakistan’s prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, but rejected on the say-so of the United States. Primakov was soon proved right: as the mujahedin fought among themselves the country slipped into chaos. The mujahedin leaders were a mirror image of the divided left, whose leaders they knew ...”

“... as impressive on this occasion as he was. 21 July. The Economist’s account of the troubles of Benazir Bhutto reminds me of being given lunch in Karachi many years ago by someone who had just been released from preventive detention by Benazir’s father. My host’s release had been secured by his father, an old ...”

“... on Mexican privatisation deals, the same cut of public contracts siphoned off by the husband of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan during her tenure as president. The same figure has been cited as the percentage of fraudulent claims on the American Medicaid/Medicare programmes, of smuggled CFCs intercepted by US Customs, and of US airline spare parts that are ...”

“... themselves previously held high political office. This has been true not only of Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto, but also of Corazón Aquino and Isabel Perón. Looked at in this comparative context, a Hillary Clinton presidency would be an expression of old-style dynastic politics, and its persistence in the US, not simply a victory for postwar female ...”

“... over the table as politely take a seat. He was a new face and had a surname that wasn’t Sharif, Bhutto or Zardari, but his government didn’t make a decisive break with the past. By 2022 successive economic crises had eroded his popular support. (He didn’t help matters by regularly using a helicopter to commute the short distance from his residence in ...”

“... ministers of India and Pakistan had shared a VIP box. Gandhi had confided to his fellow dynast Benazir Bhutto that his daughter, Priyanka, was determined to enter politics. ‘She doesn’t realise what a dangerous occupation it is,’ he said. He asked Benazir to try and talk her out of it, but she wasn’t in a ...”

“... modern versions that Urenco was planning to introduce. In July 1976, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave Khan control of Pakistan’s uranium enrichment project, reporting directly to Bhutto’s office. Khan then established the Engineering Research Laboratories, now called the Khan Research Laboratories, at Kahuta ...”

“... a call. Apparently the president wanted to know why his bank had sacked a PPP member soon after Benazir Bhutto’s fall in the late 1990s. X said he would find out and let them know. It emerged that the sacked clerk had been caught with his fingers literally in the till. President’s House was informed. The explanation was rejected. The banker was ...”

“... making a decision and sticking to it. I recently made a series of ten podcasts on the murder of Benazir Bhutto called The Assassination. It took more than a year to get it commissioned, during which time many promises were made and broken, and my emails were routinely left unanswered. By the time the series was finally commissioned, my producer and I ...”

“... mumbling. More Amisian bile – much more – was aired in an appearance on Newsnight, alongside Benazir Bhutto, and in a 12,000-word essay for the Observer on similar themes. The essay, which appeared in September, was called ‘The Age of Horrorism’, Amis having decided that ‘terrorism’ was too meagre a term to encompass the world ...”

“... leadership and the Haqqani Network. There is also some evidence that the deep state, considering Benazir Bhutto unreliable on the nuclear issue, covered up the Taliban’s role in her murder. The role of the Pakistani state in creating and supporting these groups can give the impression that the army is itself Islamist in outlook. In fact the ...”

“... announced the movement for a separate Muslim state in 1940 and it was here that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1971 and his daughter Benazir in 1986 launched their campaigns against the country’s military dictators. This gathering was larger than any of those, and Imran was in confident mood. ‘I have a bone to pick with ...”

“... in Kabul, and its inability to take a strong stand against the US war on the Taliban. The ANP and Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) could have greatly reduced the number of seats won by the Islamists, at both national and provincial level, if they had worked together – as the Islamists, despite their deep personal and ideological ...”

“... popular and could be difficult to resist after Chattha’s confession. The Sharif brothers and the Bhutto family made a serious mistake in taking office with the backing of the military in 2022 rather than calling for a general election. I’m told that Nawaz Sharif (then in self-exile in London, fleeing from the many court cases against him, since he too fell ...”