Episode 2: Family Matters

The Assassination

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4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

An execution, a wedding and exile. Benazir Bhutto becomes the Muslim world's first female prime minister. The story of the Bhutto dynasty, the allegations of corruption against them and the growing power of their enemies. With Owen Bennett Jones.

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0:00.0	whatever forms the DNA of a dynasty, Benazir Bhutto's father had it.
0:10.2	Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inherited power and he bequeathed it to and in between he wielded it.
0:19.2	By country harkens for me.
0:22.4	He gave hope to millions.
0:24.4	We'll build a new Pakistan.
0:26.4	We'll build a better Pakistan.
0:28.6	Beware sight!
0:32.6	President John F. Kennedy once said to him, Mr. Bhutto, if you were an American, you'd be in my cabinet.
0:39.8	Bhutto replied, be careful Mr. Kennedy.
0:43.8	If I were an American, you'd be in mine.
0:50.2	From the BBC World Service, this is the assassination.
0:55.8	This could be very dangerous.
0:58.4	Enemy is for me.
1:00.6	And then suddenly...
1:06.6	It's immaterial in a sense what killed her.
1:09.6	The bigger question is who killed her.
1:15.6	My name is Owen Bennett Jones and I've been thinking about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
1:20.4	since it happened a decade ago.
1:23.8	To really understand the story, we need to take a big step back in time
1:28.2	to get across her family where she came from and her political backstory.
1:33.2	And that's what we'll do in this episode, including how she ended up marrying someone
1:38.2	whose alleged corruption helped undermine her reputation.
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