I also remember that Bhutto’s stance to ease tension with India was resented by the establishment. There were accusations in the newspapers that Bhutto had passed on secrets to the Indian government regarding Sikh extremists who were allegedly trained in Pakistan. This was nothing new. In 1972, when her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto signed the historic Simla Accord, he was also accused by right-wing parties of compromising on the national interests.
Bhutto studied in elite schools and was not proficient in the national language Urdu when she entered the realm of politics but she was quick to learn the language, though the common man was amused at her accent and grammatical mistakes.
She was also an ‘eastern’ wife. During a book launch ceremony at Karachi Press Club, when a stringer from TIME magazine asked her if it was true that she had strained relations with her husband, she became furious and snubbed him. No wonder, she always denied corruption charges against Zardari.
Strangely enough, despite the fact that she studied at Harvard’s Radcliffe College and Oxford, she was superstitious and used to visit faith healers, anxious to know about her fate. At the same time, she was also daring and would not hesitate to visit places where security was inadequate. In fact, her tragic death on December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi, was the result of a security lapse.
Like her father, Bhutto too had a photographic memory and party workers would be astonished when she would address them right even if she had met them only once.
I believe that her brief tenure as Pakistan’s Prime Minister (1988-90 and 1993-96), and exit from power, could be attributed to mainly two factors: One, her husband Asif Ali Zardari’s passion to accumulate wealth, and two, her inability to organize Pakistan People’s Party on democratic lines. Pakistan People’s Party always remained under a dynasty.....Continue
Bhutto studied in elite schools and was not proficient in the national language Urdu when she entered the realm of politics but she was quick to learn the language, though the common man was amused at her accent and grammatical mistakes.She was also an ‘eastern’ wife. During a book launch ceremony at Karachi Press Club, when a stringer from TIME magazine asked her if it was true that she had strained relations with her husband, she became furious and snubbed him. No wonder, she always denied corruption charges against Zardari.
Strangely enough, despite the fact that she studied at Harvard’s Radcliffe College and Oxford, she was superstitious and used to visit faith healers, anxious to know about her fate. At the same time, she was also daring and would not hesitate to visit places where security was inadequate. In fact, her tragic death on December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi, was the result of a security lapse.
Like her father, Bhutto too had a photographic memory and party workers would be astonished when she would address them right even if she had met them only once.
I believe that her brief tenure as Pakistan’s Prime Minister (1988-90 and 1993-96), and exit from power, could be attributed to mainly two factors: One, her husband Asif Ali Zardari’s passion to accumulate wealth, and two, her inability to organize Pakistan People’s Party on democratic lines. Pakistan People’s Party always remained under a dynasty.....Continue
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