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<text id=90TT2495>
<title>
Sep. 24, 1990: World Notes:Pakistan
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Sep. 24, 1990 Under The Gun
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 64
World Notes
PAKISTAN
Laying It on The Line
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<p> Ever since she was dismissed as Prime Minister more than a
month ago on charges of corruption and general incompetence,
Benazir Bhutto has waited anxiously to see what legal grenades
the government would toss at her. Last week she found out. With
new elections scheduled for late October, the government filed
charges in four cases, accusing her of misuse of power while
in office. Insisted the former Prime Minister: "The cases are
ridiculous."
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<p> Though the charges do not carry jail terms, she would be
barred from holding public office for the next seven years if
found guilty--which is exactly what her opponents want. The
most serious charge grows out of a Bhutto government decision
last year to sell 287 acres of public land in the capital city
of Islamabad to a London firm, Messers International Guarantee
Trust Co. The government offered the land for $1 million,
though its real market value was reputed to have been closer
to 15 times that amount. The implication is that someone in
authority stood to benefit handsomely from the transaction.
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