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Catfight? Benazir is no Suu Kyi, says Jemima
LONDON: Despite her all efforts to portray herself as a messiah of democracy, former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto is no Aung Suu Kyi, ex-wife of cricketerturned-politician Imran Khan, Jemima Khan has said."This (Benazir) is the woman who was twice dismissed on corruption charges . She went into self-imposed exile while investigations continued into millions she had allegedly stashed away into Swiss bank accounts ($1.5 billion by the reckoning of President Pervez Musharraf s own "National Accountability Bureau" , Jemima wrote in The Telegraph . Suu Kyi is a pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, and a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance. Jemima further says that Benazir was able to return to Pakistan because Musharrafs future depends on the grassroots die-hard supporters inherited from her fathers party. As a result, Musharraf, who in his first months in power declared it that his express intention was to wipe out corruption, has dropped all charges against Benazir, she added. Posted by: john frum 2007-10-23 |
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