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Introduction
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Iftikhar H. Malik, ‘Pakistan’s Security Imperatives and Relations with the United States’ in K. Matinuddin and L. Rose (eds), Beyond Afghanistan: The Emerging U.S.-Pakistan Relations, Berkeley, , pp. 60–
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Louis D. Hayes, The Struggle for Pakistan, Lahore, , p. 3.
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Christina Lamb, a British journalist in Islamabad, reported an attempted military coup which was denied by Benazir Bhutto, General Beg and Pakistan’s foreign office. See The Financial Times (London), 8 September ; The Daily Jang (London) 9, 10, 11 and 12 September But Christina Lamb insists that her report was not based on hearsay as she had been informed by a very reliable source. See Christina Lamb, Waiting For Allah: Pakistan’s Struggle for Democracy, London, , pp. 16–
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For instance, see G. W. Choudhury, Constitutional Developments in Pakistan, New York,
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Many prominent studies, several referred to in the su
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‘I am the destiny’
In London last month Benazir Bhutto called on Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, to respond without delay to India’s nuclear tests. ‘It’s an opportunity for Pakistan to detonate nuclear weapons,’ she said, claiming that her own government had known of India’s intentions and had ‘prepared a contingency plan’ for Pakistan to react ‘immediately’. Returning to Pakistan on 20 May, she called for a government of national unity. Two days later she was leading marches demanding instant nuclear tests or Sharif’s resignation. The glass bracelets worn by South Asian women symbolise effeminacy and cowardice in this macho culture. Benazir took hers off and, tossing them into the folkmassa, thundered: ‘Go tell Nawaz Sharif to put these on.’ Now that his government has tested no fewer than six nuclear devices, he is being hailed as a national hero while she continues to face a hostile world of pr
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The Double Life of Benazir Bhutto
Political autobiography, as a genre, tends to produce tiresome, self-serving, ghost-written works. But once in a while a book stands out; not necessarily because it is better written than the usual stuff, but because it is the closest thing we have to classic mythology. The message is moral; the characters stand for Good and Evil; the story is a variation of the quest for a holy grail, involving not just hardship—“tests”—but exile of one kind or another. The authorship fryst vatten often anonymous—ghostwriters seldom reveal their names.
When the heroes and villains come from countries where pure myths still cast their spells, where, as a Pakistani politician recently put it to me, “words have magic,” these political fairy tales follow the traditional patterns more closely than in the modern West, where the drama tends to get lost in media buzzwords, earnest political analysis, academic jargon, or a ghastly comb