Benazir Bhutto in 1987 talked to me of concern about Afghan militants and how she dealt with life threats
By Lucy Komisar
Dec 28, 2007
Twenty years ago, on a campaign trip in rural Pakistan in October 1987, Benazir Bhutto told me of her concern about the long-term effect of Afghan refugees who had set up safe houses, stored munitions and created networks.
Bhutto was attempting to follow the footsteps of her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had been hanged in 1979 by Pakistan’s dictator General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Everything about the campaign was problematic and arduous. Zia’s government refused to register her Pakistan People’s Party. She also spoke of an attempt on her life while she was campaigning.
