Posted on 16/02/08
A campaign book for a campaign cut brutally short
RECONCILIATIONIslam, Democracy and the West By Benazir BhuttoHarperCollins, 328 pages, $29.95Benazir Bhutto was a formidable campaigner. Raised by a Pakistani political family and its political party, she became a symbol of her generation's hopes for a country that vacillates between authoritarianism and occasional democratic aspirations. The 30 years between her tentative entry into politics, after her father's imprisonment and death at the hands of General Zia ul Haq, and her own assassination six weeks ago bracketed fully half of Pakistan's lifetime.
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