PAKISTAN: Bhutto’s Sudden, Shabby End

A secret execution inspires revulsion and protest”If I am assassinated on the gallows, there will be turmoil and turbulence, conflict and conflagration.”—A death-cell prediction by former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali BhuttoThe sputter of midnight traffic had given way to the long wait for dawn when the 1,400 inmates of Rawalpindi District Jail began to pray. Imperceptibly at first, their murmur grew as they recited from the Koran; the time for execution was approaching

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