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- <title>
- Sep. 24, 1990: World Notes:Pakistan
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 24, 1990 Under The Gun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 64
- World Notes
- PAKISTAN
- Laying It on The Line
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <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."
- </p>
- <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.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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