With all respect to the late Ms. Bhutto, I'm not quite sure where the hero-worship comes from. She is thought by many to have run a corrupt government while in office. Her husband was in prison for many years....
As I tried to say in the very first post, Ms. Bhutto was an exceptionally bright individual by any standard you might use, team this with her obviously famous name due to her father, and a legacy of reform, all contribute to her enhanced image and loyal followers. In electing her not only the first woman, but also the youngest Prime Minister in Pakistan history, not once but twice, we know that she had a broad appeal. Then in that second term came the corruption charges.
You need to know that corruption charges were a common ploy used to justify the torture and/or murder of opposition leaders by the military regime that preceded the current one. This is not to dismiss any charges made, only to place them in their proper context. Once these charges are forged, the normal process of adjudication would not resemble what you would say is a fair course.
Knowing this, Ms. Bhutto's advisers convinced her that she must leave and live in exile, after those early signs were sent out. Presumably she reached an arrangement with the current military leader to come back without retribution. In hindsight, her timing was ill advised, and the consequences were tragic.
The Bhutto family is rapidly disappearing, and it looks as though the best of them have come and gone. Who knows what fate will now visit that country in view of what has been lost, and what has remained.
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