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daughter of destiny, copyright © www.bhutto.org 2 benazir bhutto an autobiography daughter of destiny daughter of destiny, copyright © www.bhutto.org 3 preface i have always believed in the importance of historic record. when the government of my father, zulfikar ali bhutto, was overthrown in 1977, i encouraged many of those who had worked closely with him to write about the bhutto period. but in the difficult years of martial law that followed in pakistan, many from my father's government were busy fighting the persecution and the false cases brought against them by the military regime. others had fled into exile, and had no access to their personal papers. my own involvement in the struggle to return democracy to pakistan, and the years i consequently spent imprisoned without charge, made it impossible for me to write a book on my father's government myself. more than a million of my countrymen came …

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c, forcing me for the first time to come to terms with memories i had been trying to escape. this is my story, events as i saw them, felt them, reacted to them. it is not an in-depth study of pakistan, but a glance into the transformation of a society from democracy to dictatorship. let it also be a call for freedom. benazir bhutto june 1988 karachi, pakistan daughter of destiny, copyright © www.bhutto.org 4 april 4, 1979 daughter of destiny, copyright © www.bhutto.org 5 1 the assassi�atio� of my father they killed my father in the early morning hours of april 4, 1979, inside rawalpindi district jail. imprisoned with my mother a few miles away in a deserted police training camp at sihala, i felt the moment of my father's death. despite the valiums my mother had given me to try to get through the agonizing night, i suddenly …

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ore burial. we applied to the jail superintendent ..." "they have taken him," he interrupted. daughter of destiny, copyright © www.bhutto.org 6 "taken him where?" the jailer was silent. "it was very peaceful," he finally replied. "i have brought what was left." he handed me the pitiful items from my father's death cell one by one: my father's shalwar khameez, the long shirt and loose trousers he'd worn to the end, refusing as a political prisoner to wear the uniform of a condemned criminal; the tiffin box for food that for the last ten days he had refused; the roll of bedding they had allowed him only after the broken wires of his cot had lacerated his back; his drinking cup . . . "where is his ring?" i managed to ask the jailer. "did he have a ring?" he asked. i watched him make a great show of fishing …

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d pakistan's first constitution to guarantee legal protection and civil rights. where the people had had to resort to violence and bloodshed to unseat the generals, he had guaranteed a parliamentary system of civilian government and elections every five years. no. it was not possible. "jiye bhutto! long live bhutto!" millions had cheered when he became the first politician ever to visit the most forlorn and remote villages of pakistan. when his pakistan people's party was voted into office, my father had started his modernization programs, redistributing the land held for generations by the feudal few among the many poor, educating the daughter of destiny, copyright © www.bhutto.org 7 millions held down by ignorance, nationalizing the country's major industries, guaranteeing minimum wages and job security, and forbidding discrimination against women and minorities. the six years of his government had brought light to a country steeped in stagnant darkness—until the dawn …

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y father near me by sleeping with his shirt under my pillow. i felt completely empty, that my life had shattered. for almost two years, i had done nothing but fight the trumped-up charges brought against my father by zia's military regime and work with the pakistan people's party toward the elections zia had promised at the time of the coup, then had canceled in the face of our impending victory. i had been arrested six times by the military regime and been repeatedly forbidden by the martial law authorities to set foot in karachi and lahore. so had my mother. as acting chairperson of the ppp during my father's imprisonment, she had been detained eight times. we had spent the last six weeks under detention in sihala, the six months before that under detention in rawalpindi. yet not until yesterday had i allowed myself to believe that general zia …

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daughter of destiny, copyright © www.bhutto.org 2 benazir bhutto an autobiography daughter of destiny daughter of destiny, copyright © www.bhutto.org 3 preface i have always believed in the importance of historic record. when the government of my father, zulfikar ali bhutto, was overthrown in 1977, i encouraged many of those who had worked closely with him to write about the bhutto period. but in the difficult years of martial law that followed in pakistan, many from my father's government were busy fighting the persecution and the false cases brought against them by the military regime. others had fled into exile, and had no access to their personal papers. my own involvement in the struggle to return democracy to pakistan, and …

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