![]() ![]() In Bhutto's new book, "Reconciliation," a volume she finished days before she was killed, she lays out her vision of Islam as "an open, pluralistic and tolerant religion" that she says has been hijacked by extremists, and her belief that Islam and the West need not be headed on a collision course toward a "clash of civilizations." The head of the populist Pakistan Peoples Party, Bhutto was herself a charismatic and polarizing figure, who ran as a representative of democratic hopes, and her death underscored the instability of Pakistan - a nuclear-armed country deemed by many as the most dangerous place in the world - and the precarious state of politics in that nation, which headed to the polls on Monday in a vote that will determine the next prime minister. HarperCollins.īenazir Bhutto called her 1989 autobiography "Daughter of Destiny," and when she was assassinated in December at 54, she became the fourth member of her immediate family to die violently against the backdrop of Pakistani intrigue and politics: her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was hanged in 1979 on charges of having ordered the murder of a minor political opponent her younger brother, Shahnawaz, mysteriously died of poisoning in 1985 and her other brother, Murtaza, was gunned down outside his home in 1996. Reconciliation Islam, Democracy, and the West By Benazir Bhutto 328 pages. ![]()
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