Sunday, January 06, 2008

As fate would have it...coming of age at 19 is a Bhutto destiny.,.


Benazir Bhutto was the daughter of Pakistani President Ali Bhutto. In June 1972, the 19-year-old accompanied her father to Simla, India, where he met Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for a summit. Benazir Bhutto is seen here walking with India’s Foreign Affairs Minister Swaran Singh.

Bhutto is posthumous Parade mag cover
By KAREN MATTHEWS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK -- An interview with Benazir Bhutto before the former Pakistani prime minister was assassinated was important enough to keep on the cover of Parade magazine, the magazine's publisher said Sunday - even though the publication had already gone to print when Bhutto was killed.
Randy Siegel said Parade went to press on Dec. 21 and was already on its way to the 400 newspapers that distribute it when Bhutto was killed in a Dec. 27 shooting and bombing attack at a campaign rally in her country.
The Web version of the story was updated, Siegel said, but it was too late to change the magazine. He said the only option other than running the outdated article would have been asking newspapers not to distribute the magazine at all.
"We decided that this was an important interview to share with the American people," he said.
In the interview, Bhutto says that her enemies want her dead.
"I am what terrorists most fear, a female political leader fighting to bring modernity to Pakistan," Bhutto told author Gail Sheehy, who interviewed her weeks earlier. "Now they're trying to kill me."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110ap_bhutto_magazine_cover.html