Word: pakistanã
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...tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto ’73 rocked both Pakistan and the world. An articulate, charismatic, Harvard and Oxford-educated leader who was the first female elected leader of a Muslim nation, Bhutto has been eulogized by the international media as a saintly figure who was Pakistan??s greatest hope. Yet while there is no question that her death was an unfortunate event that has thrown Pakistan into disarray, Bhutto was not the panacea that many remember her as or wanted her to be. As prime minister, Bhutto was a reformer and was a strong advocate...
...Bhutto’s proudest accomplishments was breaking through the “glass ceiling” as a woman in a Muslim society, she told The Crimson in 1998. Bhutto became the first female prime minister of Pakistan??and of any Islamic country—in 1988 at the age of 35, a position she would hold twice...
...Bhutto’s assassination has shaken Pakistan??s political landscape and caused the government to postpone elections until February...
...resigned from the post of Chief of Army Staff and is planning to hold parliamentary elections early next year. He will no longer hold both the positions of Army Chief and President, and some semblance of popular governance will be restored to Pakistan. These were two key demands that Pakistan??s Western allies had made...
...It’s a travesty,” Adaner Usmani ’08 said. “[Musharraf] has completely eroded Pakistan??s democratic fabric...It’s a very, very sad development...