As Benazir Bhutto tenderly sprinkled red and yellow flowers on her father's marble tomb last week, the scene amounted to only a brief respite from a family feud of royal proportions. Just minutes earlier, Pakistani national police had prevented her mother from making the same gesture -- by firing tear gas and bullets at the 63-year-old widow and her supporters who had gathered at the family mansion nearby. Raising a white handkerchief in a sign of peace, Nusrat Bhutto asked police to allow her supporters to tend to the wounded. Angrily, she compared her daughter to General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the...
Mommie Dearest
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto resorts to force to quell her own family's challenge to her power
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