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Remembering Benazir Bhutto

by Norbert Schiller

After news filtered out from Pakistan that Benazir Bhutto had survived a suicide attack on the day of her triumphant return last October, I knew deep down that if she were to continue her campaign to become prime minister, her chances of surviving until election day were minimal. Pakistan had changed since the last time she campaigned and now the world, and particularly her home country, was far more dangerous than when she began her political career almost 20 years ago. On December 27, 2007, a little over two months after the first attack, she was killed doing what she was good at, getting close to the people. In the summer of 1988, while a young Benazir was preparing to accomplish what no Muslim woman had done in modern history, I was covering the last days of a brutal eight-year war that began with no warning and was about to

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