Fatima Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto's niece, Fatima Bhutto, who had earlier exhorted President Obama: Stop Funding My Failing State, now makes an eloquent case against the Pakistani President:

Besides ruining my country, I believe my aunt's husband, Pakistani President Zardari, orchestrated my father’s murder. Is Obama really going to offer him billions more when they meet today?

Something rotten has arrived in Washington.

Today, President Barack Obama will shake hands and stage Oval Office photo ops for the first time with the man who many believe stole billions from the Pakistani treasury, empowered Pakistan’s newly formed Taliban by imposing Shariah law without a vote or referendum, and whom I have publicly accused of orchestrating the murder of my father, Murtaza Bhutto, an elected member of parliament until he was killed in 1996.

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First, we learnt last year that Sonia Gandhi reads not only such books as Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi but also those about "the true story of a covert CIA operation in Afghanistan by an unusual author, which reveals just how global power politics are played out".

And now we have Pakistani diplomatic mission in Texas trying to raise funds for a chair of Pakistan Studies at the University of Texas in Austin -- to be named after the very same "Good-Time Charlie"...