Saturday, December 29, 2007

By Peter W. Galbraith: My Friend Died. Now Her Country May Not Make It.

Benazir Bhutto did not survive her last campaign to restore democracy to her country. After her murder, Pakistan may not survive, either. --- To understand why the country is in such jeopardy, Americans must get past our habit of thinking of Pakistan in our terms, as a front line in the war on terrorism and as the nuclear-armed rival of India. Pakistanis, by and large, see themselves through the prism of province and ethnicity. Bhutto was the only Pakistani politician with substantial support in both Punjab, the country's largest province, and her native Sindh, Pakistan's second most populous province.

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