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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    36 : Forthcoming Pakistan Elections: A Profile on Benazir Bhutto

    Rajshree Jetly

    13 December 2007

    On 10 April 1986, over a million people gave a rousing reception to Ms Benazir Bhutto when she returned from political exile. On 18 October 2007, she returned after another period of exile, but this time, she was nearly killed by a horrific bomb attack which claimed over one hundred lives. Ms Bhutto had come back to a very different Pakistan from the one in which she grew up, and which both she and her father had led as Prime Ministers at different periods.