BENAZIR Bhutto, the former and likely future prime minister of Pakistan, has snagged a book deal with HarperCollins, believed to be worth $500,000.
“Pakistan is an increasingly volatile place, and Bhutto’s book is an eye-opening look at the mistakes we’ve made in the region and what we can do to correct them - as well as what the consequences will be if we don’t,” said HarperCollins Executive Editor Tim Duggan.
“It’s the kind of book that can actually have an impact on how events unfold in the Middle East and beyond,” Duggan predicted
(Harper Collins is the book publishing division of News Corp. which also owns The Post.)
Duggan said he bought the book proposal after hearing the exiled former Pakistani leader deliver an address at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The book was represented by Andrew Wylie, the agent known as The Jackal.
Bhutto, who had an op-ed piece in yesterday’s Washington Post entitled, “When I Return to Pakistan,” has been living in exile since 1999, while heading the Pakistan People’s Party.
She served as Pakistan’s prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996.
“The fight against extremism requires a national effort that can only flow from legitimate elections,” she wrote in her op-ed piece.
Duggan said the book, which is expected to be out in the spring, is to be called “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West,” and will be part memoir and part political treatise.
And i seriously wonder what she has to write about now that may be of any significance other than glorifying herself, her family and finding new lies again and trying to say that she has to be in power to work wonders (for her self i.e. ) wasnt that daughter of the east enough for her that she has to waste more…
nah her daddy wrote a book too. I think in that book he explained how in a democracy someone winning less votes gets to be the leader. IOnly if Al Gore would have read that book we would have had a blue USA with Al Gore the President and a Red one with W as president.
ggod one Aalsi!
