“Benazir Bhutto:
Daughter of Destiny”
Hitchens’ brief essay on the complex life of Pakistan’s
Benazir Bhutto. Daughter and apologist for
her “charming and unscrupulous” father who treated Pakistan like “Bhutto family
property. She was the first elected female leader of an Islamic country but
married to a corrupt “play boy.” She benefitted form broad popular support but
was eventually proven to have led a corrupt government. She was the daughter of
a slain politician but returned from exile three times to challenge a ruling regime.
Once ending up imprisoned for five years and once being elected Prime Minister.
She originally supported an “active pro-Taliban policy” but was likely moving to oppose the extremism of the Taliban and al-Qaeda when, on her third return to
Pakistan, she was assassinated.
New Learning: Bhutto was in exile in Dubai before her final
return.
New Phrase: cui bono = “to who’s benefit?”
Bhutto has a memorial women's cricket tournament named after her:
Bhutto has a memorial women's cricket tournament named after her:
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