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09 January 2008

Politics in Pakistan

Well... it's certainly never boring...
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari is heading for some fresh trouble as Pakistani authorities are now pursuing him for the $54 million they allege the couple hid illegally in Switzerland.
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A few pointed queries made it clear that people here did not think much of dynastic politics.

Paxman made the point by accusing the Bhuttos of treating the PPP as a piece of ‘family furniture’ to be handed down as an inheritance.

Lyse Doucet from the BBC asked if he would heal the rifts in the Bhutto family by reaching out to his cousins.

And one pointed question about Asif Zardari’s reputation being a handicap in his running the PPP would have embarrassed any son.
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