by John Dugdale The author was 14 when her father Murtaza, brother of Pakistan's then prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed outside their home in Karachi. Before she was born her grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who ruled the country in the 70s, was executed by the military regime that deposed him; and Murtaza's death was preceded by her uncle Shahnawaz's poisoning, and followed by the assassination of Benazir (once a beloved aunt, but by then long estranged) four years ago. So her mesmerising book often has the feel of a detective inquiry into the events of a Jacobean tragedy in which a dynasty is inexorably eliminated. But it's much more than that: a biography of her father; a memoir of a fractured, nomadic childhood largely spent in exile in Afghanistan and Syria; and a history of Pakistan since partition. What might have been a poignant but limited exercise in filial piety is instead a multi-layered work, as remarkable for its adroit interweaving of the personal and the political as for its ambitious scope. * Fatima Bhutto * Politics John Dugdale guardian.co.uk (C) Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject ... A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today directed prosecutors to contact Interpol to help serve an arrest warrant issued for former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with a case related to the assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto. A court in Pakistan orders the arrest of exiled former military president Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. A court in Pakistan asks a federal agency to seek Interpol's help in arresting exiled former military president Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday told mediapersons in Rawalpindi that all the 'culprits' involved in the killing of former premier Benazir Bhutto have been arrested, The News reported. Everyone is recoiling from the battle that should be fought against people who impose their authority by murder One by one, those who stick their head above the parapet to demand changes in Pakistan's infamous blasphemy law are being gunned down. First Salmaan Taseer, the governor of Punjab, and now Shahbaz Bhatti, Islamabad's minister for minorities, himself a Christian. To say these men were liberals is to posit a false dichotomy. The people gunning them down are not conservatives. They are people who impose their authority by suicide bombings and murder. Their form of argument is terror, and the battle which should be fought against them by anyone who upholds freedom of belief should be as clear on the streets of Islamabad as it is in the foothills of Waziristan. But everyone recoils. The government backs off through a misguided sense of self-preservation. Weak and fragile, it believes it is being goaded into a conflict it cannot win. So it retreats, backing up against a precipice over which it will eventually fall. Instead of mobilising mass demonstrations against the killings, the Pakistan Peoples party appeases the very forces responsible for the murder of its former leader ... A court in Pakistan reissued an arrest warrant Saturday for former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a public prosecutor told CNN. A prosecutor says a court has told Pakistani authorities to trace the address of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to arrest him in connection with the Benazir Bhutto assassination. Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) will seek the extradition of former President Pervez Musharraf after his refusal to appear before an anti- terrorism court on charges that he failed to provide adequate security to slain former premier Benazir Bhutto. An antiterrorism court judge issued an arrest warrant for former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, state-run television reported. Former military ruler implicated in assassination of Benazir Bhutto. A Pakistani court issues an arrest warrant for former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Video courtesy of Reuters. Though he does not yet face any charges, the developments mark a major escalation of legal troubles for Mr. Musharraf, a one-time U.S. ally who went into self-exile in Britain in 2008 after being forced out of the presidency he secured in a 1999 military coup A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant Saturday for former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, while government investigators accused the retired general of involvement in the slaying. An anti-terrorism court judge issued an arrest warrant Saturday for former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, state-run television reported. A court in Pakistan issues an arrest warrant for former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. An antiterrorism court judge issued an arrest warrant for former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf in connection with the 2007 assassination of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, state-run television reported. Former president Pervez Musharraf will not comply with a warrant for his arrest issued by a court in Pakistan over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman in London said Saturday.
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Monday, May 2, 2011
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