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| Benazir convicted on corruption charges |
| 2002-07-09 |
| A court sentenced exiled former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in absentia Tuesday to three years in prison for corruption. Judge Mansur Ali Khan also ordered Bhutto's non-moveable assets in Pakistan to be seized and issued warrants for her arrest if she returns to the country. Bhutto was ousted in 1996 after a corruption scandal and now lives in self-imposed exile in the United Arab Emirates and Britain. She and her husband were found guilty of corruption by Pakistan's High Court in April 1999 and sentenced to five-year jail terms, fined and disqualified from politics for seven years. Bhutto, who heads the Pakistan Peoples Party, has recently indicated she may will return to Pakistan to contest legislative elections planned for October. This is no surprise. Perv has been campaigning against corruption even harder than he's been campaigning against the fundos. Apparently he's serious, since the PPP would seem to be a natural ally against the more dangerous religious parties. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |