Adoration and suspicion: The trials of Benazir Bhutto Pakistan's ex-premier, charming and imperious, insists she will prevail over corruption charges

From: The Boston Globe | Date: February 28, 1999| Author: Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff | Copyright information

KARACHI -- What happened to Benazir Bhutto?

Eleven years after being swept to power on the hopes of millions, she spends more time these days in courtrooms fighting corruption charges than in parliament battling for her people.

In the 1980s, the beautiful young Bhutto embodied the struggle against military dictatorship and championed the poor, illiterate majority of her 130 million people. In 1988, she became the first female leader of an Islamic nation, only to be dismissed two...

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