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Friday, December 28, 2007

[mukto-mona] Taslima and her new book Tui Nishidho, Tui Kota Kois na !!!!(A write up from Uttorshuri)

Read and enjoy!!


Taslima Nasrin has dropped the bomb, as she has just
published another volume of her autobiographical
sequel: Tui Nishiddho, Tui Kota Kois Na.

This volume certainly is going to raise another hue
and cry; and possibly is going to ensure her becoming
an outcast among, in her words, closet Hindu
intellectuals and writers of Calcutta, who, according
to her description, are (Hindu) hypocrite per se.

Against these Calcutta based writers/intellectua ls,
Taslima's accusitions are:

1) These Calcutta based writers/intellectua ls take
sexual advances in private, but omits such episodes in
their life when they write autobiography; but they
narrate them in their fictions.

2) These writers/intellectua ls, who pretend to be
communist and secular, in reality, are Hindu by mind,
faith, and practice.

3) These Calcutta based writes/intellectual s are
shrewed (chalak)in their bahvior towards the "idiot
(boka) Muslim Writers of Bangladesh," as these
Calcutta based writes/intellectual s take advantage in
three ways:

a) These Calcutta based writes/intellectual s put the
blame on "Muslim writers of Bangladesh" to bear the
burden of her books being banned in Bangladesh (and
thus, they pretend to remain champion of freedom of
thought).

b)These Calcutta based writes/intellectual s appease
the Muslims, to keep their secular face.

c) In return of their appeasement, these Calcutta
based writes/intellectual s wine and dine with the
elites of Dhaka, at the expense of the latter.

I just gave the summary, you can read the rest from
her book. I am forwarding a synopsis of her book,
published in Daily Aajkaal.

I wonder, what the arch-defendednt members of
Uttorshuir has to say, who, hardly tolerated any valid
criticism of Taslima isse and Hindu Politics of India.
After all, these supporters, despite their procliam of
secualrism, in words of Taslima, are "BOKA MUSLIM".

Enjoy the reading.

Curzon

http://www.aajkaal. net/cat.php? hidd_cat_ id=1

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[vinnomot] Taslima and her new book Tui Nishidho, Tui Kota Kois na !!!!(A write up from Uttorshuri)

Read and enjoy!!


Taslima Nasrin has dropped the bomb, as she has just
published another volume of her autobiographical
sequel: Tui Nishiddho, Tui Kota Kois Na.

This volume certainly is going to raise another hue
and cry; and possibly is going to ensure her becoming
an outcast among, in her words, closet Hindu
intellectuals and writers of Calcutta, who, according
to her description, are (Hindu) hypocrite per se.

Against these Calcutta based writers/intellectua ls,
Taslima's accusitions are:

1) These Calcutta based writers/intellectua ls take
sexual advances in private, but omits such episodes in
their life when they write autobiography; but they
narrate them in their fictions.

2) These writers/intellectua ls, who pretend to be
communist and secular, in reality, are Hindu by mind,
faith, and practice.

3) These Calcutta based writes/intellectual s are
shrewed (chalak)in their bahvior towards the "idiot
(boka) Muslim Writers of Bangladesh," as these
Calcutta based writes/intellectual s take advantage in
three ways:

a) These Calcutta based writes/intellectual s put the
blame on "Muslim writers of Bangladesh" to bear the
burden of her books being banned in Bangladesh (and
thus, they pretend to remain champion of freedom of
thought).

b)These Calcutta based writes/intellectual s appease
the Muslims, to keep their secular face.

c) In return of their appeasement, these Calcutta
based writes/intellectual s wine and dine with the
elites of Dhaka, at the expense of the latter.

I just gave the summary, you can read the rest from
her book. I am forwarding a synopsis of her book,
published in Daily Aajkaal.

I wonder, what the arch-defendednt members of
Uttorshuir has to say, who, hardly tolerated any valid
criticism of Taslima isse and Hindu Politics of India.
After all, these supporters, despite their procliam of
secualrism, in words of Taslima, are "BOKA MUSLIM".

Enjoy the reading.

Curzon

http://www.aajkaal. net/cat.php? hidd_cat_ id=1

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[vinnomot] Fwd: Love and relationships: Masters answer the question

what is love? Is it synonymous with relationships? Can it happen only between a man and woman? Or is it something beyond this, which canft be defined?
 


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[mukto-mona] RAJAKRA's PICTURE.

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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari

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[mukto-mona] Lesson for Bangladesh in the aftermath of Benazir's assassination

Lesson for Bangladesh in the aftermath of Benazir's assassination
 
Shabbir Ahmed
 
A pall of gloom has descended on Pakistan by the untimely death of the charismatic leader Mrs. Benazir Bhutto. She was murdered in cold blood in a public rally organized by her party. The death toll is more than twenty. With her death, the already chaotic political condition of Pakistan will become more and more volatile and uncertain. One might anticipate that going forward the death of Benazir Bhutto will cause more destruction, more instability, and more loss of human lives in Pakistan. It is yet to be seen who were the main conspirators behind her killing. Immediately after her return a few months ago, the killers blasted bombs with an attempt to kill her. Her party pointed fingers toward some people in the government run mainly by the Pakistan's military. This time her supporters and her party leaders are blaming the military dictator Gen. Musharraf for her killing. Benazir Bhutto's husband has blamed the Pakistan military intelligence ISI for the killing.

It is well known to the conscious people of Pakistan and Bangladesh on how Pakistan's military and their intelligence tried to eliminate popular political leaders in the past. The rogue military and their intelligence captured power and manipulated the politics to maintain their supremacy, power, and vested interests. To achieve their mischievous goals, the military junta did not hesitate to put leaders like Husein Shahid Suhrawardy and Sher-e-Bangla Fazlul Haque in jail by bringing fabricated charges against them. The rogue military of Pakistan overturned even the election results that were held in 1970. To maintain their grip on power and continue their dictatorial rule, the undemocratic military rulers of Pakistan adopted a "minus two" policy by forcing Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif to live in exile. The military rulers and the military-backed government of Pakistan brought charges of corruption against these leaders to implement their "minus two theory." It is known that under pressure from USA, the military-backed government of Pakistan recently withdrew all the charges against Benazir Bhutto. The military and the civil conspirators of Pakistan had to abandon the "minus two" policy and let both Benazir Bhutto and Miah Nawaz Sharif return to Pakistan. After all, the conspirators do not tend to follow rule of rule, they try to rule by force, and they understand the meaning of force thrust upon them. The civil-military nexus of Pakistan bowed down to the pressure from USA and allowed Benazir to participate in the upcoming election. It is alleged that the ruling oligarchs allowed her but did not provide adequate and necessary security for her protection from dangers. There are charges made by the independent observers and by the supporters of Benazir against Musharraf and the ruling elites for letting her die in the hands of the killers. In fact, Benazir herself wrote about the lack in her security before her death. She even wrote that Musharraf would remain responsible if anything bad happened to her. Now it is proven that the civil-military conspirators did not provide security protection only to let her die.

Now turn your attention to Bangladesh, which is following the legacy of Pakistan. This nation of 145 million became independent by fighting against the Pakistani military and their extremist allies such as fundamentalist Jamaat -i-Islami. Unfortunately, Bangladesh could not able to get out of the system that was created by the military rulers of Pakistan. The civil-military bureaucrats eventually captured power by killing the founding father and his associates, who were time-tested leaders of the people of Bangladesh. The cantonment-born parties named Bangladesh National Party (BNP) and Bangladesh Jatio Party (BJP) were formed by the civil-military conspirators with the help of a few political leaders devoid of any popularity and people's support. These parties continued to remain in power for a long time mainly to serve the purposes of the powerful quarters. They did not allow democracy to grow and even played conspiratorial role in eliminating leaders like Mrs. Sheikh Hasina. Similar to what happened to Mrs. Bhutto, the security for Mrs. Sheikh Hasina were made inadequate by the cantonment-born BNP while they were in power. On August 21, 2004 Sheikh Hasina and her associates were attacked by the terrorists in a rally in Dhaka. It was reported that the security for Sheikh Hasina were relaxed by the government. The killers charged grenades on the rally of a former prime minister and the head of a leading political party but escaped without getting any resistance.

There are many similarities between the attack on Mrs. Bhutto and on Mrs. Hasina. Mrs. Hasina was addressing a rally organized by her party while the killers attacked. Similarly, Mrs. Bhutto was attacked while addressing a rally organized by her party. More than twenty people died immediately after the attack on Mrs. Hasina. Here in the case of attack on Mrs. Bhutto, so far twenty two people have been killed. In both cases, the respective government did not bother to provide adequate security for the protection of the two leaders. In Sheikh Hasina¢s case, the government twisted the information and deliberately misguided the course of investigation. The ruling military of Pakistan have already started twisting the information of the killing of Mrs. Bhutto. The doctors and the eyewitnesses said that the attackers shot Mrs. Bhutto while the government has released information quite contrary to what has been reported so far. Unfortunately, in the case of Mrs. Bhutto, the attackers were able to succeed by killing her. Mrs. Sheikh Hasina critically survived the attack but still trying to survive politically by overcoming the conspiracies of the powerful oligarchs who are now ruling Bangladesh.

The civil-military bureaucrats and the conspirators destroyed the political institutions of Pakistan. Through conspiracies, they brought charges of corruption against both honest and dishonest politicians. Defiant but honest and liberal politicians were eliminated through many conspiratorial means. Many times, the dishonest politicians were rewarded for cooperating with the powerful quarters to maintain their vested interests. By doing conspiracies and adopting many "minus theories," the oligarchs created vacuum in the political arena. In the vacuum, the Islamic fundamentalists and the extremists grew with the direct and indirect supports of the civil-military bureaucrats. Pakistan has gone close to the point of anarchy and destruction due to the manipulative policies of the military and their notorious intelligence called ISI. Fortunately, Bangladesh is not yet there. But, there are ample signs and indications that tell us poignantly that a similar fate waits for senior most political figures. Hopefully, the ruling elites of Bangladesh will try to learn from the dismal happenings in Pakistan and take corrective actions so that the lives of 145 teeming millions will not plunge into darkness.

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[vinnomot] Lesson for Bangladesh in the aftermath of Benazir's assassination

Lesson for Bangladesh in the aftermath of Benazir's assassination
 
Shabbir Ahmed
 
A pall of gloom has descended on Pakistan by the untimely death of the charismatic leader Mrs. Benazir Bhutto. She was murdered in cold blood in a public rally organized by her party. The death toll is more than twenty. With her death, the already chaotic political condition of Pakistan will become more and more volatile and uncertain. One might anticipate that going forward the death of Benazir Bhutto will cause more destruction, more instability, and more loss of human lives in Pakistan. It is yet to be seen who were the main conspirators behind her killing. Immediately after her return a few months ago, the killers blasted bombs with an attempt to kill her. Her party pointed fingers toward some people in the government run mainly by the Pakistan's military. This time her supporters and her party leaders are blaming the military dictator Gen. Musharraf for her killing. Benazir Bhutto's husband has blamed the Pakistan military intelligence ISI for the killing.

It is well known to the conscious people of Pakistan and Bangladesh on how Pakistan's military and their intelligence tried to eliminate popular political leaders in the past. The rogue military and their intelligence captured power and manipulated the politics to maintain their supremacy, power, and vested interests. To achieve their mischievous goals, the military junta did not hesitate to put leaders like Husein Shahid Suhrawardy and Sher-e-Bangla Fazlul Haque in jail by bringing fabricated charges against them. The rogue military of Pakistan overturned even the election results that were held in 1970. To maintain their grip on power and continue their dictatorial rule, the undemocratic military rulers of Pakistan adopted a "minus two" policy by forcing Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif to live in exile. The military rulers and the military-backed government of Pakistan brought charges of corruption against these leaders to implement their "minus two theory." It is known that under pressure from USA, the military-backed government of Pakistan recently withdrew all the charges against Benazir Bhutto. The military and the civil conspirators of Pakistan had to abandon the "minus two" policy and let both Benazir Bhutto and Miah Nawaz Sharif return to Pakistan. After all, the conspirators do not tend to follow rule of rule, they try to rule by force, and they understand the meaning of force thrust upon them. The civil-military nexus of Pakistan bowed down to the pressure from USA and allowed Benazir to participate in the upcoming election. It is alleged that the ruling oligarchs allowed her but did not provide adequate and necessary security for her protection from dangers. There are charges made by the independent observers and by the supporters of Benazir against Musharraf and the ruling elites for letting her die in the hands of the killers. In fact, Benazir herself wrote about the lack in her security before her death. She even wrote that Musharraf would remain responsible if anything bad happened to her. Now it is proven that the civil-military conspirators did not provide security protection only to let her die.

Now turn your attention to Bangladesh, which is following the legacy of Pakistan. This nation of 145 million became independent by fighting against the Pakistani military and their extremist allies such as fundamentalist Jamaat -i-Islami. Unfortunately, Bangladesh could not able to get out of the system that was created by the military rulers of Pakistan. The civil-military bureaucrats eventually captured power by killing the founding father and his associates, who were time-tested leaders of the people of Bangladesh. The cantonment-born parties named Bangladesh National Party (BNP) and Bangladesh Jatio Party (BJP) were formed by the civil-military conspirators with the help of a few political leaders devoid of any popularity and people's support. These parties continued to remain in power for a long time mainly to serve the purposes of the powerful quarters. They did not allow democracy to grow and even played conspiratorial role in eliminating leaders like Mrs. Sheikh Hasina. Similar to what happened to Mrs. Bhutto, the security for Mrs. Sheikh Hasina were made inadequate by the cantonment-born BNP while they were in power. On August 21, 2004 Sheikh Hasina and her associates were attacked by the terrorists in a rally in Dhaka. It was reported that the security for Sheikh Hasina were relaxed by the government. The killers charged grenades on the rally of a former prime minister and the head of a leading political party but escaped without getting any resistance.

There are many similarities between the attack on Mrs. Bhutto and on Mrs. Hasina. Mrs. Hasina was addressing a rally organized by her party while the killers attacked. Similarly, Mrs. Bhutto was attacked while addressing a rally organized by her party. More than twenty people died immediately after the attack on Mrs. Hasina. Here in the case of attack on Mrs. Bhutto, so far twenty two people have been killed. In both cases, the respective government did not bother to provide adequate security for the protection of the two leaders. In Sheikh Hasina¢s case, the government twisted the information and deliberately misguided the course of investigation. The ruling military of Pakistan have already started twisting the information of the killing of Mrs. Bhutto. The doctors and the eyewitnesses said that the attackers shot Mrs. Bhutto while the government has released information quite contrary to what has been reported so far. Unfortunately, in the case of Mrs. Bhutto, the attackers were able to succeed by killing her. Mrs. Sheikh Hasina critically survived the attack but still trying to survive politically by overcoming the conspiracies of the powerful oligarchs who are now ruling Bangladesh.

The civil-military bureaucrats and the conspirators destroyed the political institutions of Pakistan. Through conspiracies, they brought charges of corruption against both honest and dishonest politicians. Defiant but honest and liberal politicians were eliminated through many conspiratorial means. Many times, the dishonest politicians were rewarded for cooperating with the powerful quarters to maintain their vested interests. By doing conspiracies and adopting many "minus theories," the oligarchs created vacuum in the political arena. In the vacuum, the Islamic fundamentalists and the extremists grew with the direct and indirect supports of the civil-military bureaucrats. Pakistan has gone close to the point of anarchy and destruction due to the manipulative policies of the military and their notorious intelligence called ISI. Fortunately, Bangladesh is not yet there. But, there are ample signs and indications that tell us poignantly that a similar fate waits for senior most political figures. Hopefully, the ruling elites of Bangladesh will try to learn from the dismal happenings in Pakistan and take corrective actions so that the lives of 145 teeming millions will not plunge into darkness.


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[mukto-mona] Cox's Bazar & Sundarban at the Top of World's 7 Natural Wonders!!

As of last Thursday, 27th Dec. 2007; Cox's Bazar--the longest sea beach in the world located in Bangladesh--ascended to the top of list while Sundarban--the largest mangrove forest in the world, also located in Bangladesh--became the second on the list among the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
 
Read details......... 
 
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2. In Bangla
 
 
 
Regards,
J.A.
 


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Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh

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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/5_yrs_anniv/index.htm

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Mukto-Mona Celebrates Earth Day:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Earth_day2006/index.htm

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Kansat Uprising : A Special Page from Mukto-Mona 
http://www.mukto-mona.com/human_rights/kansat2006/members/


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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
http://www.mukto-mona.com/project/Roumari/freedom_fighters_union300306.htm

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German Bangla Radio Interviews Mukto-Mona Members:
http://www.mukto-mona.com/Special_Event_/Darwin_day/german_radio/


Mukto-Mona Celebrates Darwin Day:

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[vinnomot] Cox's Bazar & Sundarban at the Top of World's 7 Natural Wonders!!

As of last Thursday, 27th Dec. 2007; Cox's Bazar--the longest sea beach in the world located in Bangladesh--ascended to the top of list while Sundarban--the largest mangrove forest in the world, also located in Bangladesh--became the second on the list among the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
 
Read details......... 
 
1. In English:
 
 
2. In Bangla
 
 
 
Regards,
J.A.
 


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Benazir Bhutto '73 Assassinated
 
She called Harvard 'the very basis for my belief in democracy'
Benazir Bhutto '73, shown here after she was confirmed as president of the Oxford Union in 1976, was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Published On Thursday, December 27, 2007  5:39 PM
 
Crimson Staff Writer

 
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto '73 was assassinated Thursday at a campaign rally near the country's capital, Islamabad.

The former Eliot House resident, known as "Pinkie," died in a suicide attack after an assailant shot her and blew himself up, killing at least 20 others. Her death spurred rioting that has already claimed five lives in Pakistan as of Thursday afternoon.

Twice prime minister of Pakistan and the daughter of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto returned from exile in October to lead her party in parliamentary elections scheduled for Jan. 8. A large enough victory for her party would have allowed her a third tenure as prime minister.

But her assassination has shaken Pakistan's political landscape and caused the government to consider postponing the January elections.

Since graduating she has maintained ties with Harvard, visiting the University several times, delivering the 1989 Commencement address, and donating $100,000 in 1995 to the Center for Islamic Studies at Harvard Law School.

She fondly remembered her years as a Harvard undergraduate and their role in her political development, calling Harvard "the very basis of my belief in democracy," in a 1998 interview with The Crimson.

Material from the Associated Press was used in the reporting of this story.

Below is a 1998 Crimson story about Bhutto's time at Harvard, published as part of a special section commemorating the Class of 1973.

MEMORIES OF HARVARD GIVE BHUTTO STRENGTH

Locked in solitary confinement for opposing the military dictator who had her father killed, Benazir Bhutto '73 found comfort in her memories of Harvard.

"I remember those long summer nights that never seemed to end when I was in Sukkur jail," says the former prime minister of Pakistan.

"If I drifted off to sleep, I would somehow find myself back in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'd be walking the Commons. I'd be in Harvard Yard, I'd be going to the little corner shop that sold magazines."

"I think that was the way my subconscious was coping with surviving," Bhutto says.

Her name means "without comparison," and her life--from political prisoner, to youngest head of state in the world, to ousted leader--is a turbulent tale of courage and controversy.

Born into a life of wealth and privilege, very little could have prepared Benazir Bhutto '73 for the path she would take soon after she graduated from Harvard.

But in her eyes, her Harvard experience was a formative one, solidifying her identity as a woman, a Muslim and a politician.

FROM STUDENT TO A STATESWOMAN
 

After a stint at Oxford, where she became the first foreign woman to lead the Oxford Union, its most prestigious debate team, Bhutto returned to Pakistan intending to join the diplomatic service.

Within weeks of her return in 1977, however, her father, Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was overthrown in a military coup by General Zia ul-Haq, who had the senior Bhutto killed two years later.

It fell to Benazir Bhutto, then only 24, to lead the struggle against ul-Haq. She paid dearly for it, spending years in squalid prisons, often in solitary confinement, or under house arrest until she was forced into exile in London in 1984.

Returning to Pakistan after martial law was lifted in 1986, she led her party to victory in Pakistan's first democratic elections in more than a decade and became, at 35, the first woman in history to lead a Muslim state.

But her administration was wrought with controversy. In August 1990, the president of Pakistan dismissed her on charges of corruption and ineffectiveness, charges of which she was later acquitted.

Bhutto recaptured leadership in 1993, only to be ousted again by the president in 1996 again on charges of corruption and misrule. The charges are now under investigation by the Pakistani government.

Meanwhile, Bhutto maintains her innocence, saying she is the victim of rival politicians' scheming for power. She leads the opposition party in the Pakistani Parliament and fights for the release of her imprisoned husband.

Looking back, Bhutto says her Harvard experience laid the democratic and feminist foundations that she drew on throughout, from prison to the primer minister's office.

LAYING A FOUNDATION
 

Bhutto, now 45, still fondly remembers Harvard as the place where she gained her first exposure to the wonders of a functioning democracy.

Calling Harvard "the very basis of my belief in democracy," she says that coming to a land where there is freedom, where young students can criticize the president without being sent to prison, fueled her own belief in the democratic system.

According to Bhutto, that "determination to see freedom in my own country, to see rule of law, to see democratic institutions, was born in that period of great intellectual ferment at Harvard," when the debates over the Vietnam War and the feminist movement raged across campus and throughout the nation.

During that time, she protested the Vietnam War and marched for Third World rights.

"Harvard became a seat of resistance against this unjust war. And yet there were others who were quite gungho about America going to war," she recalls. "So there would be a lot of discussion--intense, deep [and] heated--on the subject of whether it was a just war or an unjust war."

Grades, says Bhutto, were not everything. Frequently adopting social causes, like boycotting grapes and lettuce out of support for immigrant farmers, was more important in her social circle.

"Life meant not succeeding in exams, life meant developing oneself as a person," she says.

Exams were not without their benefit, however. Bhutto says the "constant pressure" of tests, papers and extracurricular activities strengthened her for the demands of political life.

"It gave me the capacity to endure pain, to endure setbacks which I don't think I would have had I had not seen life as a series of steps for endurance in a microscope called a course at Harvard University," she says.

HER SOCIAL CIRCLE
 

Moving in a group of people where "most of us loved to read books on feminism, on the war [and to] argue about them," Bhutto says she never developed a taste for the social scene of parties and discos.

Instead, she spent late nights discussing the virtues and flaws of democracy, feminism and the state of the world.

A member of the Signet, a literary society, Bhutto says she would often find herself talking about figures like the Milford Sisters and Anais Nin with friends over milk and cookies.

Some of the conversations Bhutto had then seem eerily prescient in retrospect.

"All of us would sit there and say that today we are unknown, will a day arise when we too will make a contribution and people will recall us as they recall a group of people known as the Milford Sisters," Bhutto says. "Will we as a group achieve such recognition?"

The daughter of the president of Pakistan (he was subsequently elected prime minister), Bhutto says she found at Harvard the anonymity she had always craved. The chance to be accepted for who she was--and not who her father was--proved delightfully liberating.

"People accepted me as Pinkie--not as Benazir, because at that time I was called Pinkie--and for the first time, I walked without the shadow of fame stalking me," she says.

"I was accepted as any other young undergraduate," Bhutto adds. "We'd go out to movies. Easy Rider had just come out with Peter Fonda, and it was a big hit. I'd take part in demonstrations against the Vietnam War. We'd walk down the Commons and have ice cream. It was a great time."

"It was a time of immense freedom, a time of immense privacy and a time when I was accepted for being me and not because I was the daughter of somebody, the mother of somebody, the sister of somebody."

POLITICS AND FRIENDSHIP
 

In addition to creating fond Harvard memories, Bhutto says the friends she made at Harvard helped her deal with personal crises later in life.

Of her classmates, Bhutto remembers Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '73 as someone she found herself relating to when her own father was killed in 1979.

"I was back in Pakistan when [Attorney General and presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy '48] was assassinated [in 1968]. When I reached Eliot [House], I found out that Kathleen Kennedy was also one of the undergraduates, and my heart really went out to her."

"I remember she had at the time a blue parka jacket that belonged to her father, and she would wear it often and keep it very close to her," Bhutto says.

"My mind went back to her when I [later] lost my own father, and I wanted to keep the clothes he had on when he was executed close to me to feel in a way that I had some link to him."

Coming to college in a foreign land at the age of 16, Bhutto recalls her impression of Americans as warm and accepting.

She says she "found America to be a very integrated society, prepared to accept, to integrate and to welcome."

All the same, Bhutto was struck by the number of people who had heard of India but not Pakistan, a realization that led to heated arguments.

She would ask, "How can you come to this great University and not know that there was this great movement against colonialism that led to the birth of my country?"

Bhutto's Muslim beliefs made her different as well. "Everyone would see this young lady going around saying 'Is this bacon? Because I can't have it if it is?'" she recalls.

In politics, Bhutto diverged from her peers concerning China, which was the great bugbear of American politics at the time. Having met Chinese leaders like Chuen-Lai and Lu Sha Chi, Bhutto says she found herself at odds with many of her friends in her admiration for and understanding of the Chinese nation.

A MODERN YOUNG LADY

Coming from a conservative Muslim country, Harvard marked the first time Bhutto found women competing as equals with men.

She says she saw students, both men and women, making their own decisions and leading their own lives. In contrast, Bhutto says that although she came from a relatively Westernized background, all of her decisions were made for her by her parents.

Even the decision to come to Harvard rested not with Bhutto but ultimately with her father, Zulfiqar.

"[He] told me 'I'm not sending you to California because the weather is too warm and you won't study. Instead I'm going to send you to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where there's so much snow that you'll have no alternative but to stay inside and work.'"

Even her undergraduate concentration required the parental seal of approval, Bhutto says. "When I was an undergraduate, I very much wanted to study psychology, but my father was very interested that I study government, so I studied government to please him."

Later on, Bhutto would also mount a successful run for the campus-wide, popularly elected presidency of the Oxford Union, the university's debate team, primarily to please her father, who wished to pass the political mantle on to his talented eldest child.

Despiteor perhaps because ofthe example set by her parents, Bhutto plans to allow her children to make their own decisions about college.

"Of course, I'd love it if my children followed in my footsteps and went to Harvard," she says. "But if they want to go to another university, I'll let them do what they want. I learned at Harvard that it's important to let young people make up their minds."

Continuing the political strain, Bhutto also comped The Crimson, hoping to write for its editorial page.

But Crimson executives pressured Bhutto to write sports stories, as her House, Eliot, was the home of many of the College's best athletes at the time.

She made all but the last of three cuts. Crimson editors told her she could be elected, but only if she would cover sports. It was an offer Bhutto refused.

Only half serious, Bhutto says, "My hopes of becoming a journalist were dashed when I was cut at the final comp."

SHATTERING THE GLASS CEILING

Her proudest accomplishment, Bhutto says, is her success as a woman in a man's world.

"My greatest contribution lies in that my success as a woman in a Muslim society, where tradition and tribal taboos held sway, has emancipated other women," she says.

"My success helped other women make choices that were not available to them before, not only in Pakistan but all over the Muslim world."

This week, Bhutto will not be at her 25th reunion.

Instead, she will focus on her work, leading the opposition in Parliament during the crucial budget session in Pakistan. Despite her absence, Bhutto has a reunion message of victory to her friends and classmates.

"We did it, we broke through the glass ceiling," Bhutto says proudly. "In those days, we wondered whether we could, but time showed we did. And now other women take for granted what women of our generation always wondered about."
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Benazir Bhutto Date of birth: June 21, 1953 Date of death: December 27, 2007 Benazir Bhutto was born in Karachi, Pakistan to a prominent political
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Benazir Bhutto '73 Assassinated
 
She called Harvard 'the very basis for my belief in democracy'
Benazir Bhutto '73, shown here after she was confirmed as president of the Oxford Union in 1976, was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Published On Thursday, December 27, 2007  5:39 PM
 
Crimson Staff Writer

 

 
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto '73 was assassinated Thursday at a campaign rally near the country's capital, Islamabad.

The former Eliot House resident, known as "Pinkie," died in a suicide attack after an assailant shot her and blew himself up, killing at least 20 others. Her death spurred rioting that has already claimed five lives in Pakistan as of Thursday afternoon.

Twice prime minister of Pakistan and the daughter of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto returned from exile in October to lead her party in parliamentary elections scheduled for Jan. 8. A large enough victory for her party would have allowed her a third tenure as prime minister.

But her assassination has shaken Pakistan's political landscape and caused the government to consider postponing the January elections.

Since graduating she has maintained ties with Harvard, visiting the University several times, delivering the 1989 Commencement address, and donating $100,000 in 1995 to the Center for Islamic Studies at Harvard Law School.

She fondly remembered her years as a Harvard undergraduate and their role in her political development, calling Harvard "the very basis of my belief in democracy," in a 1998 interview with The Crimson.

Material from the Associated Press was used in the reporting of this story.

Below is a 1998 Crimson story about Bhutto's time at Harvard, published as part of a special section commemorating the Class of 1973.

MEMORIES OF HARVARD GIVE BHUTTO STRENGTH

Locked in solitary confinement for opposing the military dictator who had her father killed, Benazir Bhutto '73 found comfort in her memories of Harvard.

"I remember those long summer nights that never seemed to end when I was in Sukkur jail," says the former prime minister of Pakistan.

"If I drifted off to sleep, I would somehow find myself back in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I'd be walking the Commons. I'd be in Harvard Yard, I'd be going to the little corner shop that sold magazines."

"I think that was the way my subconscious was coping with surviving," Bhutto says.

Her name means "without comparison," and her life--from political prisoner, to youngest head of state in the world, to ousted leader--is a turbulent tale of courage and controversy.

Born into a life of wealth and privilege, very little could have prepared Benazir Bhutto '73 for the path she would take soon after she graduated from Harvard.

But in her eyes, her Harvard experience was a formative one, solidifying her identity as a woman, a Muslim and a politician.

FROM STUDENT TO A STATESWOMAN
 

After a stint at Oxford, where she became the first foreign woman to lead the Oxford Union, its most prestigious debate team, Bhutto returned to Pakistan intending to join the diplomatic service.

Within weeks of her return in 1977, however, her father, Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, was overthrown in a military coup by General Zia ul-Haq, who had the senior Bhutto killed two years later.

It fell to Benazir Bhutto, then only 24, to lead the struggle against ul-Haq. She paid dearly for it, spending years in squalid prisons, often in solitary confinement, or under house arrest until she was forced into exile in London in 1984.

Returning to Pakistan after martial law was lifted in 1986, she led her party to victory in Pakistan's first democratic elections in more than a decade and became, at 35, the first woman in history to lead a Muslim state.

But her administration was wrought with controversy. In August 1990, the president of Pakistan dismissed her on charges of corruption and ineffectiveness, charges of which she was later acquitted.

Bhutto recaptured leadership in 1993, only to be ousted again by the president in 1996 again on charges of corruption and misrule. The charges are now under investigation by the Pakistani government.

Meanwhile, Bhutto maintains her innocence, saying she is the victim of rival politicians' scheming for power. She leads the opposition party in the Pakistani Parliament and fights for the release of her imprisoned husband.

Looking back, Bhutto says her Harvard experience laid the democratic and feminist foundations that she drew on throughout, from prison to the primer minister's office.

LAYING A FOUNDATION
 

Bhutto, now 45, still fondly remembers Harvard as the place where she gained her first exposure to the wonders of a functioning democracy.

Calling Harvard "the very basis of my belief in democracy," she says that coming to a land where there is freedom, where young students can criticize the president without being sent to prison, fueled her own belief in the democratic system.

According to Bhutto, that "determination to see freedom in my own country, to see rule of law, to see democratic institutions, was born in that period of great intellectual ferment at Harvard," when the debates over the Vietnam War and the feminist movement raged across campus and throughout the nation.

During that time, she protested the Vietnam War and marched for Third World rights.

"Harvard became a seat of resistance against this unjust war. And yet there were others who were quite gungho about America going to war," she recalls. "So there would be a lot of discussion--intense, deep [and] heated--on the subject of whether it was a just war or an unjust war."

Grades, says Bhutto, were not everything. Frequently adopting social causes, like boycotting grapes and lettuce out of support for immigrant farmers, was more important in her social circle.

"Life meant not succeeding in exams, life meant developing oneself as a person," she says.

Exams were not without their benefit, however. Bhutto says the "constant pressure" of tests, papers and extracurricular activities strengthened her for the demands of political life.

"It gave me the capacity to endure pain, to endure setbacks which I don't think I would have had I had not seen life as a series of steps for endurance in a microscope called a course at Harvard University," she says.

HER SOCIAL CIRCLE
 

Moving in a group of people where "most of us loved to read books on feminism, on the war [and to] argue about them," Bhutto says she never developed a taste for the social scene of parties and discos.

Instead, she spent late nights discussing the virtues and flaws of democracy, feminism and the state of the world.

A member of the Signet, a literary society, Bhutto says she would often find herself talking about figures like the Milford Sisters and Anais Nin with friends over milk and cookies.

Some of the conversations Bhutto had then seem eerily prescient in retrospect.

"All of us would sit there and say that today we are unknown, will a day arise when we too will make a contribution and people will recall us as they recall a group of people known as the Milford Sisters," Bhutto says. "Will we as a group achieve such recognition?"

The daughter of the president of Pakistan (he was subsequently elected prime minister), Bhutto says she found at Harvard the anonymity she had always craved. The chance to be accepted for who she was--and not who her father was--proved delightfully liberating.

"People accepted me as Pinkie--not as Benazir, because at that time I was called Pinkie--and for the first time, I walked without the shadow of fame stalking me," she says.

"I was accepted as any other young undergraduate," Bhutto adds. "We'd go out to movies. Easy Rider had just come out with Peter Fonda, and it was a big hit. I'd take part in demonstrations against the Vietnam War. We'd walk down the Commons and have ice cream. It was a great time."

"It was a time of immense freedom, a time of immense privacy and a time when I was accepted for being me and not because I was the daughter of somebody, the mother of somebody, the sister of somebody."

POLITICS AND FRIENDSHIP
 

In addition to creating fond Harvard memories, Bhutto says the friends she made at Harvard helped her deal with personal crises later in life.

Of her classmates, Bhutto remembers Kathleen Kennedy Townsend '73 as someone she found herself relating to when her own father was killed in 1979.

"I was back in Pakistan when [Attorney General and presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy '48] was assassinated [in 1968]. When I reached Eliot [House], I found out that Kathleen Kennedy was also one of the undergraduates, and my heart really went out to her."

"I remember she had at the time a blue parka jacket that belonged to her father, and she would wear it often and keep it very close to her," Bhutto says.

"My mind went back to her when I [later] lost my own father, and I wanted to keep the clothes he had on when he was executed close to me to feel in a way that I had some link to him."

Coming to college in a foreign land at the age of 16, Bhutto recalls her impression of Americans as warm and accepting.

She says she "found America to be a very integrated society, prepared to accept, to integrate and to welcome."

All the same, Bhutto was struck by the number of people who had heard of India but not Pakistan, a realization that led to heated arguments.

She would ask, "How can you come to this great University and not know that there was this great movement against colonialism that led to the birth of my country?"

Bhutto's Muslim beliefs made her different as well. "Everyone would see this young lady going around saying 'Is this bacon? Because I can't have it if it is?'" she recalls.

In politics, Bhutto diverged from her peers concerning China, which was the great bugbear of American politics at the time. Having met Chinese leaders like Chuen-Lai and Lu Sha Chi, Bhutto says she found herself at odds with many of her friends in her admiration for and understanding of the Chinese nation.

A MODERN YOUNG LADY

Coming from a conservative Muslim country, Harvard marked the first time Bhutto found women competing as equals with men.

She says she saw students, both men and women, making their own decisions and leading their own lives. In contrast, Bhutto says that although she came from a relatively Westernized background, all of her decisions were made for her by her parents.

Even the decision to come to Harvard rested not with Bhutto but ultimately with her father, Zulfiqar.

"[He] told me 'I'm not sending you to California because the weather is too warm and you won't study. Instead I'm going to send you to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where there's so much snow that you'll have no alternative but to stay inside and work.'"

Even her undergraduate concentration required the parental seal of approval, Bhutto says. "When I was an undergraduate, I very much wanted to study psychology, but my father was very interested that I study government, so I studied government to please him."

Later on, Bhutto would also mount a successful run for the campus-wide, popularly elected presidency of the Oxford Union, the university's debate team, primarily to please her father, who wished to pass the political mantle on to his talented eldest child.

Despiteor perhaps because ofthe example set by her parents, Bhutto plans to allow her children to make their own decisions about college.

"Of course, I'd love it if my children followed in my footsteps and went to Harvard," she says. "But if they want to go to another university, I'll let them do what they want. I learned at Harvard that it's important to let young people make up their minds."

Continuing the political strain, Bhutto also comped The Crimson, hoping to write for its editorial page.

But Crimson executives pressured Bhutto to write sports stories, as her House, Eliot, was the home of many of the College's best athletes at the time.

She made all but the last of three cuts. Crimson editors told her she could be elected, but only if she would cover sports. It was an offer Bhutto refused.

Only half serious, Bhutto says, "My hopes of becoming a journalist were dashed when I was cut at the final comp."

SHATTERING THE GLASS CEILING

Her proudest accomplishment, Bhutto says, is her success as a woman in a man's world.

"My greatest contribution lies in that my success as a woman in a Muslim society, where tradition and tribal taboos held sway, has emancipated other women," she says.

"My success helped other women make choices that were not available to them before, not only in Pakistan but all over the Muslim world."

This week, Bhutto will not be at her 25th reunion.

Instead, she will focus on her work, leading the opposition in Parliament during the crucial budget session in Pakistan. Despite her absence, Bhutto has a reunion message of victory to her friends and classmates.

"We did it, we broke through the glass ceiling," Bhutto says proudly. "In those days, we wondered whether we could, but time showed we did. And now other women take for granted what women of our generation always wondered about."

 

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