Bhutto?

[asterroc]

As usual, I am filled with ignorance. The extent of my knowledge about Bhutto is that she was important b/c of being a female Prime Minister in an Arabic Muslim nation, and that she was very controversial, having been outed due to corruption charges twice.

I would like to be enlightened in three sentences or less. Anyone care to take up the challenge? I'm able to get longer versions online easily, the problem is that (as judes_39 put it to me on the phone the other day) Google not only can find everything on the internet, but it finds EVERYTHING on the internet, and as a result I'm having difficulty telling what the important parts are. This has always been my weakness since high school, that I cannot pull out the overall picture for being drowned in isolated facts.

So, three sentences (or as short as possible), who was Bhutto, why was she important, and why should I care?

Comments

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I can't give you anything like a complete picture, but I can provide a few useful factoids. For more, I'd suggest the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto

First, Pakistan is not an "Arabic" nation. I suspect you meant "Muslim".

Second, you should care because (a) a bunch of people in Pakistan care (and are both inclined to blame the current President (Musharraf) for her demise and willing to make a lot of trouble as a result), (b) Pakistan has nukes, and (c) Pakistan, or at least many of its people, have close ties to (neighboring) Afghanistan and to the conservative socioreligious movements that brought us al-Qaeda. If bin Laden is still alive, there's a good chance that he's in Pakistan, and an excellent one that some people in Pakistan know where he is regardless.