There is the sense of reading two texts: the first might well have been published during the early months of Bhutto's premiership, its words a yardstick against which we would measure the effectiveness of her government the second stands as the final testament of an extraordinary woman whose death added urgency to the already-urgent arguments of the book.Īfter the first chapter, with its heartstopping description of October 18, we move into a more scholarly tone in which Bhutto defends Islam from those outside who view it as a religion of violence and fear, and from those within who want to cast it in such terms. The details of the suicide attack are horrific enough within their own context, but when read as precursor to the attack that killed Bhutto 10 weeks later they acquire an even more chilling resonance. There can be few experiences more disquieting than that of reading the opening pages of Benazir Bhutto's Reconciliation, with its description of her homecoming on Octothe jubilation followed by carnage.
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