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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Pakistan-Bhutto-World.html?_r=1 <http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Pakistan-Bhutto-World.html?_r=1&or ef=slogin> &oref=slogin Countries Condemn Bhutto Killing By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:39 a.m. ET >From Moscow to Washington to New Delhi and points in between, dismay and condemnation poured forth Thursday over the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/benazir_bhutto /index.html?inline=nyt-per> Benazir Bhutto, along with concern for the stability of the volatile region. In India, which has fought three wars against Pakistan, Prime Minister <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/manmohan_singh /index.html?inline=nyt-per> Manmohan Singh said Bhutto is irreplaceable, and noted she had striven to improve relations between the two nuclear-armed countries. ''I was deeply shocked and horrified to hear of the heinous assassination,'' Singh said. ''In her death, the subcontinent has lost an outstanding leader who worked for democracy and reconciliation in her country.'' Bhutto's assassination ''is not only bad for Pakistan,'' said former Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh. ''It is bad for the entire region.'' In a letter to Pakistani President <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/pervez_musharr af/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Pervez Musharraf, French President <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/nicolas_sarkoz y/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Nicolas Sarkozy called the attack an ''odious act'' and said ''terrorism and violence have no place in the democratic debate and the combat of ideas and programs.'' Bhutto, a former two-time prime minister of Pakistan, was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi just 10 weeks after she returned to her homeland from eight years in exile. The articulate, poised 54-year-old had lashed out at the spread of Islamic extremism as she campaigned for next month's parliamentary elections. The United States had been at the forefront of foreign powers trying to arrange reconciliation between Bhutto and Musharraf, who under heavy U.S. pressure resigned as army chief and earlier this month lifted a state of emergency, in the hope it would put Pakistan back on the road to democracy. ''Certainly, we condemn the attack on this rally,'' said deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey. ''It demonstrates that there are still those in Pakistan who want to subvert reconciliation and efforts to advance democracy.'' Sarkozy said Bhutto had paid ''with her life her commitment to the service of her fellow citizens and to Pakistan's political life'' and urged Pakistan's elections be held as scheduled on Jan. 8. In Britain, where Bhutto had attended <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/o/oxford_ university/index.html?inline=nyt-org> Oxford University, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was ''deeply shocked'' by Bhutto's death. ''Benazir Bhutto showed in her words and actions a deep commitment to her country,'' Miliband said. ''She knew the risks of her return to campaign but was convinced that her country needed her. This is a time for restraint but also unity.'' Italian Premier <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/romano_prodi/i ndex.html?inline=nyt-per> Romano Prodi said he was filled with grief and called Bhutto ''a woman who chose to fight her battle until the end with a single weapon -- the one of dialogue and political debate.'' ''The difficult path toward peace and democracy in that region must not be stopped, and Bhutto's sacrifice will serve as the strongest example for those who do not surrender to terrorism,'' Prodi said. In Moscow, Anatoly Safonov, Russian President Vladmir Putin's envoy on international cooperation against terrorism, expressed fears the assassination would trigger violent repercussions. ''The already unstable situation in Pakistan will be further exacerbated by this powerful factor,'' Safonov said, according to the Interfax news agency. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin condemned the attack, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. ''We hope that the leadership of Pakistan will succeed in taking all measures for guaranteeing security in the country,'' Kamynin said. French Foreign Minister <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/bernard_kouchn er/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Bernard Kouchner, who personally knew Bhutto, said he hails her memory and called on the international community to support Pakistan and its democracy. Sweden's Foreign Minister <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/carl_bildt/ind ex.html?inline=nyt-per> Carl Bildt said he had felt disgust when receiving the news of Bhutto's murder, which he called ''bestial.'' ''I feel a strong worry for the consequences this will have for Pakistan,'' he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/world/asia/28bhuttocnd.html?hp= <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/world/asia/28bhuttocnd.html?hp=&pagewante d=print> &pagewanted=print Benazir Bhutto, 54, Lived in Eye of Pakistan Storm By <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/jane_perlez/in dex.html?inline=nyt-per> JANE PERLEZ and <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/john_oneil/ind ex.html?inline=nyt-per> JOHN O'NEIL The daughter of one of <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/pa kistan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> Pakistan's most flamboyant and democratically inclined prime ministers, <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/benazir_bhutto /index.html?inline=nyt-per> Benazir Bhutto, 54, served two turbulent tenures of her own in that post. A deeply polarizing figure, she lived in exile in London for years with corruption charges hanging over her head before returning home this fall to present herself as the answer to her nation's trouble. She was killed on Thursday in a combined shooting and bombing attack at a rally in Rawalpindi, one of a series of open rallies she had insisted on holding since her return to Pakistan this fall, after years in self-imposed exile. A woman of grand ambitions and a taste for complex political maneuvering, Ms. Bhutto, 54, was long the leader of the country's largest opposition political party, founded by her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Even from exile, her leadership was firm, and when she returned, she proclaimed herself a tribune of democracy, leading rallies in opposition to Mr. Musharraf, like the one at which she died. In a foreshadowing of the attack that killed her, a triumphal parade that celebrated her return to Pakistan in her home city of Karachi killed at least 134 of her supporters and wounded more than 400. Ms. Bhutto herself narrowly escaped harm. Her political plans were also sidetracked: she had been negotiating for months with the country's military leader, President <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/pervez_musharr af/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Pervez Musharraf, over a power-sharing arrangement, only to see General Musharraf declare emergency rule instead. Her record in power, and the dance of veils she has deftly performed since her return - one moment standing up to General Musharraf, then next seeming to accommodate him, and never quite revealing her actual intentions - stirred as much distrust as hope among Pakistanis. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, she brought the backing of Washington and London, where she impressed with her political lineage and her considerable charm. She also became the first female leader of a Muslim nation when she became prime minister in 1988 at the age of 35. But during her two stints in that job - first from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996 - she developed a reputation for acting imperiously and impulsively. She faced deep questions about her personal probity in public office, which led to corruption cases against her in Switzerland, Spain and Britain, as well as in Pakistan. Ms. Bhutto saw herself as the inheritor of her father's mantle, often spoke of how he encouraged her to study the lives of legendary female leaders ranging from <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/indira_gandhi/ index.html?inline=nyt-per> Indira Gandhi to Joan of Arc. She grew up in the most rarefied atmosphere the country had to offer. One longtime friend and adviser, Peter W. Galbraith, a former American ambassador to Croatia, said he and Ms. Bhutto believed they first met in 1962 when they were children: he the son of <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/john_kenneth_g albraith/index.html?inline=nyt-per> John Kenneth Galbraith, the American ambassador to India; she the daughter of the future Pakistani prime minister. Mr. Galbraith's father was accompanying <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/jacqueline_ken nedy_onassis/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Jacqueline Kennedy to a horse show in Lahore. They met again at Harvard, where Mr. Galbraith remembers Ms. Bhutto arriving as a prim 16-year-old fresh from a Karachi convent who liked to bake cakes. After her father's death - he was hanged by another general who seized power, Zia ul-Haq - Ms. Bhutto stepped into the spotlight as his successor. Following the idea of big ambition, Ms. Bhutto called herself chairperson for life of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, a seemingly odd title in an organization based on democratic ideals and one she has acknowledged quarreling over with her mother, Nusrat Bhutto, in the early 1990s. She was also wont to self-aggrandize. She recently boasted that three million people came out to greet her in Karachi on her return last month, calling it Pakistan's "most historic" rally. In fact, crowd estimates were closer to 200,000, many of them provincial party members who had received small amounts of money to make the trip. Such flourishes led questioning in Pakistan about the strength of her democratic ideals in practice, and a certain distrust, particularly amid signs of back-room deal-making with General Musharraf, the military ruler she opposed. "She believes she is the chosen one, that she is the daughter of Bhutto and everything else is secondary," said Feisal Naqvi, a corporate lawyer in Lahore who knew Ms. Bhutto. When Ms. Bhutto was re-elected to a second term as Prime Minister, her style of government combined both the traditional and the modern, said Zafar Rathore, a senior civil servant at the time. But her view of the role of government differed little from the classic notion in Pakistan that the state was the preserve of the ruler who dished out favors to constituents and colleagues, he recalled. As secretary of interior, responsible for the Pakistani police force, Mr. Rathore, who is now retired, said he tried to get an appointment with Ms. Bhutto to explain the need for accountability in the force. He was always rebuffed, he said. Finally, when he was seated next to her in a small meeting, he said to her, "I've been waiting to see you," he recounted. "Instantaneously, she said: 'I am very busy, what do you want. I'll order it right now.' " She could not understand that a civil servant might want to talk about policies, he said. Instead, he said, ''she understood that when all civil servants have access to the sovereign, they want to ask for something." But until her death, Ms. Bhutto ruled the party with an iron hand, jealously guarding her position, even while leading the party in absentia for nearly a decade. Members of her party saluted her return to Pakistan, saying she was the best choice against General Musharraf. Chief among her attributes, they said, was her sheer determination. Ms. Bhutto's marriage to <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/z/asif_ali_zarda ri/index.html?inline=nyt-per> Asif Ali Zardari was arranged by her mother, a fact that Ms. Bhutto has often said was easily explained, even for a modern, highly educated Pakistani woman. To be acceptable to the Pakistani public as a politician she could not be a single woman, and what was the difference, she would ask, between such a marriage and computer dating? Mr. Zardari is known for his love of polo and other perquisites of the good life like fine clothes, expensive restaurants, homes in Dubai and London, and an apartment in New York. He was minister of investment in Ms. Bhutto's second government. And it was from that perch that he made many of the deals that haunted Ms. Bhutto, and himself, in the courts. There were accusations that the couple had illegally taken $1.5 billion from the state. It is a figure that Ms. Bhutto has vigorously contested. Indeed, one of Ms. Bhutto's main objectives in seeking to return to power was to restore the reputation of her husband, who was jailed for eight years in Pakistan, said Abdullah Riar, a former senator in the Pakistani Parliament and a former colleague of Ms. Bhutto's. "She told me, 'Time will prove he is the <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/nelson_mandela /index.html?inline=nyt-per> Nelson Mandela of Pakistan,' " Mr. Riar said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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