After Benazir Bhutto became Pakistani prime minister in 1988, Pakistan “committed to furthering Islamism in the heart of Asia, seeing it as the sole ideology capable of containing and reversing the breakup of Pakistan along ethno-national lines.” So wrote in 1999 House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare Director Yossef Bodansky about how Pakistan’s […]
Bin Laden shifted to Afghanistan to supervise plot to murder Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto represented a utopian Pakistan, or at least the hope that Pakistan was on its way to modernization, replete with its many pledges to America to help battle Islamic terrorism. But the truth is that Pakistan is a state funder of terrorism, playing a dangerous double game. The assassination of Bhutto was no aberration […]