Does anyone want this leader to be their future Prime Minister?

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A letter from BeNazir Bhutto to Peter Galbraith dated 24th Sept 1990. I am copying the letter here for ease of reading. Letter is taken from newspaper ‘Daily Express’ Lahore dated 14th Nov 2007 (today).

Newspaper (check the bottom of the newspaper): Daily Express Urdu Newspaper | Latest Pakistan News | Breaking News](Daily Express Urdu Newspaper | Latest Pakistan News | Breaking News)=

Or go directly to the letter: Daily Express News Story](Daily Express News Story)

To:
Peter Galbraith
National Democratic Institute for international affairs
USA

Dear Peter Galbraith

I don’t know how to thank you, for your so many favours to me and my family.

As you know that the orders of my dismissal were drafted in the IAG branch of the GHQ, as it was not possible for me to pull along with the army and they subverted my Government.

I have already communicated to various friends in the congress and specially Stephen Solarz: to use their good office with President Bush, so as to put maximum pressure on President Ishaq, and the army in Pakistan, that they do not disqualify me from the elections, as it would be unjust and negation of all democratic principles for which we have struggled.

It would be most appropriate if military as well as economic Assistance to Pakistan is stopped, and all the International agencies like the world bank, IMF are told to squeeze the Government of Pakistan, and if possible all supply to Pakistan should be disrupted, so that essential life in Pakistan comes to stand still.

As long as I was the Prime Minister, I kept a check on the Nuclear device, but now I do not know what are the plans of the Government.

The suspension of F-16 and its spares will bring the army to its senses.

Dear Peter, Please use your influence on V. P. Singh the Indian Prime Minister, to engage the Pakistan army on the borders, so that they do not impede my way.

I wish Rajiv Gandhi had been the Prime Minister of India, things would have been easier.

Thank you and with warm regards.

Sincerely yours

BeNazir Bhutto
Bilawal House Karachi
24 September 1990 (when first time she was sacked from office):

[What ever I wrote in the letter above is word to word copy of what I could make up from the letter printed in ‘Daily Express’ Lahore and claimed to be of BeNazir]

I believe that the people she mentioned in her letter are:
Stephen Joshua Solraz in 1990 was democrat congressman (member of US House of Representatives).
Peter Woodard Galbraith in 1990 was working for United States foreign relations committee.

One should remember that wishful thinking does not take anyone to utopia. The reality maybe black or white, reality is reality, and the reality is that most Pakistani political leaders, be that BB, IK, or NS, they are more interested in getting into power to loot and plunder the country and play games for their foreign masters sitting in western capitals, with whom they are more loyal than to Pakistan and after looting, they take their wealth abroad too. They do not care what happens to Pakistani poor or Pakistan. They only care what happens to them and their family (as letter mentions), and for that, they can sell or destroy Pakistan for their foreign masters, economically as well as militarily.

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the slogan shcantters "Wazeer - e -Azam Benazeer " in Pakistan, dont have access to this letter and even they have it, they dont read english.

if some one translate to them they will assume this is musharraf chall to defame her!!

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I am not surprised about this letter but to the length she could go to make Pakistan cripple only for her kursi is disgusting but If someone can 'sacrifice' her own brother for kursi then I don't think people really count to her. no wonder she represent Pakistan puppys party.

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Benazir is bayzamir.
what is so surprising?

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damn. wow.

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WELLDONE saleemmm bhai

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WOW!!! Thanks for sharing!

Although I believe that she is capable of saying this, but the fact that it's published by Pakistan Muslim League makes it a bit doubtful. How did they get a copy of this all of a sudden after 17 years?

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Didnt Benazir stop the support to Khalistani terrorists? Pakistan was responsible for providing money and weapons to create trouble in Indian Punjab. Pakistan spend millions of dollars in creating the PUNJAB problem with the sole aim of Bleeding India. And Rajiv Gandhi with a Master Stroke worked with Benazir Bhutto and stopped the support. Immediately after Benazir came to power, Khalistan movement died. Entire halistan problem was created and supported by Pakistanis.

Same thing is happening in Kashmir. Benazir will stop all the support to creating trouble in Indian Kashmir.

Pakistan has always followed the policy of "Bleeding India with Thousand cuts". Not sure whether Benazir will reverse that. Benazir should deport Dawood Ibrahim to India and disgraced nuclear physicist to US.

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I was so shocked after reading this letter that I decided to do a little research to find out wheather it’s authentic or not and came across these interesting news articles:

PPP condemns smear campaign against Benazir, to take legal action against plotters

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party has denounced the smear campaign of character assassination through newspaper adverts today against the Party Chairperson Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto as “dying kicks of the Jehadi remnants of Zia era”.
In a statement on Wednesday spokesperson for the Chairperson PPP former Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the letter alleged to have been written by Mohtarma Bhutto was forged in 1990 by elements in agencies. The forgery behind it has been exposed from the following, he said.
Mohtarma Bhutto has never used letterheads titled “Mrs. Benazir Bhutto”. The name was deliberately misspelled as GAILBRAITH in the letter toevade legal action just in case Mr Peter Galbraith challenged it.
In September 1990, the date of the forged letter, the purported addressee Peter Galbraith was a senior advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1979 to 1993) and not in the NDI as stated in the forged letter, the statement said.
The letter is full of grotesque grammatical mistakes that are unimaginable from the office of Chairperson PPP, he said.
The then advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Mr Naveed Malik through who the letter was first released to the media in September 1990 has himself admitted how it was forged andhow he was misled into believing that it was genuine, he said.
The publication of a forged letter after nearly two decades shows how the moving finger that has been writing the outcome of elections in the past is still moving to write the outcome of forthcoming elections, he said.
These elements had also cobbled together an anti PPP alliance IJI using money stolen from the banks, he recalled.
He said that it was curious that the ad was printed even though, contrary to the normal practice, the name of the advertising company that designed the advert was not mentioned.
Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the Party had credible information that the secret hands behind the campaign financed the advert from the public funds at the disposal of Information Ministry and paid at commercial rates. “The dirty brigade playing dirty tricks at public expense must be punished; they will be” The Party has decided to take legal action against all those involved in planning, executing and financing this smear campaign, he said.

http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=120520

Also, an exerpt from the NY Times:

Opponents’ Move May Backfire

But the frenzied efforts to portray Ms. Bhutto as a tool of the Americans are beginning to backfire. This week, an adviser to Nawaz Sharif, president of the Islamaic Democratic Alliance and the leading candidate for Prime Minister if Ms. Bhutto’s party is defeated, circulated a letter purporting to be written by Ms. Bhutto to Peter Galbraith. Mr. Galbraith, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, is a friend of Ms. Bhutto’s from college days at Harvard.
The letter, however, is so patently a forgery that it has made the Islamic Democratic Alliance look foolish.
Apart from the inexplicably formal salutation, ‘‘Dear Peter Galbraith,’’ the letter misspells as Solarzs the name of Representative Stephen J. Solarz, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Asian affairs, It asks Mr. Galbraith to ‘‘please use your influence on V. P. Singh the Indian Prime Minister, to engage the Pakistan Army on the borders, so that they do not impede my way.’’

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DF143BF93BA25753C1A966958260

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she ruled for about 5 yr span of time
and what about current govt!

how long do we have to bear these faces? :crying:

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Wasn't it said that she came to rule Pakistan as "revenge" for her father's death?

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said? her own banners said she is there to take 'shaheed' kay khoon ka badla. I saw em wid me own eyes.

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I won't be surprised by that at all. But this letter is just too fake.

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letter might be fake but bb these days openly calls for americans to stop supporting musharraf. since musharraf wont leave on his own and america wont launch iraq-style attack on pak to remove musharraf, the only other option america has to remove musharraf is to impose sanctions in pak. and sanctions will result in the imposition of a lot of the measures demanded in that letter. if bb is as popular as she claims to be, why does she not launch a movement on her own? khomeni launched a revolution without american help. why cant bb?

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she's a daku in a dupatta...anyone has any doubts now?

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Petrer galbraith was a class fellow and friend of of Benazir at Harvard, so this could very well be true, after all he had been instrumental in getting her released from jail the first time around.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=94639

In 1981, Galbraith was instrumental in arranging classmate and close friend Benazir Bhutto’s release from prison. In her autobiography, Bhutto names Galbraith as her liberator, the man who engineered her release from prison.

“I made a huge effort to get her out,” Galbraith says. Working as an advisor to the Senate at the time, Galbraith says he used his position to speak for her release and for the larger issue of human rights

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have u heard her speak?

anyways speaking of conspiracy tehroies...

do u think someone forging would be dumb nuff to not have it checked and double checked?
like people would plan to write a letter but mess up spellings and have errors so it looks like a forgery. one can say that she did it on purpose so once it was caught, it can be denied, I mean much of what is in there is not different than what she has said in her interviews later anyways.

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^^ Hey, I'm not defending her at all. Just saying that anyone writing such an outrageous letter to a U.S. Senator doesn't sound like a possibility. Also, have you read what it says at the bottom of the letter? It says "From the defenders of Pakistan's borders: Pakistans Muslim League." That right there tells me that something isn't right.

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Such fake letters are out just to tarnish image of the popular leader.. its was already disputed by PPP long ago.. millionsof ruppess from govt money is being poured for such ads in ppaers and PTV - this is corruption...just to bring it at election time is another way of propaganda.. just like emergency is a attack against supreme judiary to save one persons job..

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Interesting, so she does have close links to this guy.