Death Watch: A memorial service in Islamabad for Bhutto
Pakistan was a country orphaned at birth. Born of hope in 1947, the new nation an independent state for the Muslim-majority provinces of northwestern and eastern India promised to be the success story of the subcontinent, a democratic entity divested of India's terrible legacy of caste entitlement. Little more than a year after Mohammed Ali Jinnah signed the document declaring Pakistan a sovereign state, the erudite, Savile Rowsuited father of the nation died of lung cancer and tuberculosis, leaving the infant democracy bereft of his enlightened guidance. With him died the charismatic leadership that his new nation,...
