Episode 3: The Call

The Assassination

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4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

“He warned me not to come back”. Benazir’s attempt to ensure a safe return to Pakistan ends in fear, triggered by a disputed telephone conversation with Pakistan’s military ruler. With contributions from three people close to Benazir: the former Pakistani ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani; her American advisor Mark Siegal; and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. With Owen Bennett-Jones

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Owen Bennett Jones.
0:02.0	Previously on the assassination,
0:04.3	Pakistan's Benazir Bouto was in exile,
0:07.6	desperate to get home.
0:09.7	Today, she's looking for help.
0:12.3	She wants to be sure that if she does return, she'll be safe.
0:18.0	From the BBC World Service, this is the assassination.
0:22.8	This could be very dangerous.
0:24.1	The enemy is for me.
0:28.0	And then suddenly...
0:37.2	Episode 3. The Call.
0:43.9	September 2007, Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.
0:50.0	When the history of my nation is written,
0:53.3	I think we will look back to the fall of 2007
0:57.9	as a genuine turning point in Pakistan.
1:01.8	Benazir Bouto wasn't trying to fire up this crowd of American policywanks.
1:07.2	Milletons are now spreading their tentacles into the cities of Pakistan.
1:12.0	She was trying to reason with them.
1:14.4	Pakistan was ruled at the time by General Pavez-Masharraf,
1:18.5	he had taken power in a coup and Washington backed him.
1:23.0	General Masharraf has tried convincing the world that he is the only one standing in the way of
1:30.2	a extreme a stake over of nuclear armed Pakistan.
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