Archive for the 'Bhutto' Category


Pakistan’s best hope under house arrest

In 1988, when Hilary Clinton was still just the wife of the governor of Arkansas, Benazir Bhutto became the first female prime minister in the Muslim world. She was just 35. Her election victory could not have come at a better time for this Muslim woman. I was 21, returning home to my country of [...]


Bhutto assassination: A nation unraveling

By Mona Eltahawy Friday, December 28, 2007 VELEN, Germany: At a conference on radicalization in The Hague in October, a former Pakistani foreign minister told a small group of us that he had recently warned Benazir Bhutto in a phone conversation that her return to Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile could be greeted [...]