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It Doesn’t Pay to Be ‘First’ in Pakistan

December 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Today’s assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto marks the second time in 56 years that a “first” prime minister of Pakistan has been assassinated. While Bhutto the first female prime minister of Pakistan, the Southwest Asian nation’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated in October 1951, barely four years after [...]

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Bhutto Killed One Day After Her Party Goes Online

December 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments

The Pakistan People’s Party, under the leadership of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, used a news release yesterday to announce it had turned to the Internet to raise funds for the party’s efforts to win parliamentary elections in January 2008. The PPP web site , designed and supported by Washington, D.C.-based [...]

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