“The Islamists killed Benazir Bhutto as they killed her father. But they shouldn’t be allowed to kill Pakistan’s hopes for democracy.”

—  Amir Taheri

"The Bhutto assassination: Democracy must go on" http://nypost.com/2007/12/28/the-bhutto-assassination-democracy-must-go-on/, New York Post (December 28, 2007).
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