Re: Benazir Bhutto has only herself to blame - Imran Khan.
Does anyone know if Jemima is coming back to run for election in Pakistan? She sounds more like Pakistani politician than ex wife of Pakistani politician.
http://www.hindu.com/2007/10/22/stories/2007102255121400.htm
Imran, Jemima attack Benazir
Hasan Suroor
LONDON: In a rare double act, the cricketer-turned-politician, Imran Khan, and his ex-wife, Jemima, on Sunday used the pages of a British newspaper to launch an unprecedented attack on the former Pakistan Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, three days after she escaped an assassination attempt.
They blamed the Karachi bomb blasts that nearly killed Ms. Bhutto, and left 130 persons dead, on her brand of politics and her decision not to heed security warnings.
In separate articles, published side by side in The Sunday Telegraph, they also criticised the British government for facilitating Ms. Bhutto’s deal with President Pervez Musharraf, describing him as a Western “stooge”. Mr. Khan said the bombing of her cavalcade as it passed through the streets of Karachi was a “tragedy almost waiting to happen”.
“You could argue, it was inevitable,” he wrote, adding that by agreeing a deal with the Musharraf government to get herself off the corruption charges, Ms. Bhutto had made herself vulnerable, especially as the deal was “brokered” by Britain and America. Ms. Khan [she still uses her former husband’s surname] called Ms. Bhutto a “ruthless kleptocrat in a Hermes scarf”.
Ms. Khan alleged: “It’s all totally bogus. Benazir may speak the language of liberalism and look good on Larry King’s sofa, but both her terms in office were marked by incompetence, extra-judicial killings and brazen looting of the treasury, with the help of her husband — famously known as Mr. 10 Per Cent… make no mistake, Benazir may look the part, but she’s as ruthless and conniving — a kleptocrat in a Hermes headscarf.”
Ms. Khan criticised Western powers for “imposing” Ms. Bhutto on Pakistan, saying it was the “opposite of democratic and doubtless will cause more chaos in an already unstable country.”