A decade after she led this impoverished nation from military rule to democracy, Benazir Bhutto is at the heart of a widening corruption inquiry that Pakistani investigators say has traced more than $100 million to foreign bank accounts and properties controlled by Ms. Bhutto’s family. Read the rest of this entry »
Twenty years after Asif Ali Zardari shot to political fame when his late wife, Benazir Bhutto, became the first female Muslim prime minister of an Islamic country, the leading candidate to be Pakistan’s next president is again battling his past.
The 54-year-old former businessman has spent more than half his 20-year political career in prison in Pakistan fighting corruption charges and most of his recent past in exile fighting off similar allegations in international courts. In the wake of his wife’s assassination last December and the decision by former general Pervez Musharraf to step down as president last week there has never been a more pressing moment to present his side of the story. Read the rest of this entry »
