Friday, December 28, 2007

Benazir Bhutto: An Age of Hope Is Over

By Barbara Crossette, The Nation
Posted on December 28, 2007, Printed on December 28, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/71810/

Nineteen years ago at the end of December, Benazir Bhutto, fresh from her first, exhilarating election victory and newly sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, met Rajiv Gandhi, the youthful prime minister of India, for talks in Islamabad. She was 35, he was 44. There was obvious good will, almost intimacy, between them. The air was full of promise and hope that these two modernizing scions of dominant political families would turn decades of war and hostility between their nations into a new era of peace.

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