“Shaheed” means “martyr,” and that’s exactly what the late Benazir Bhutto was to the Pakistani people. Aware that she might be killed by her country’s Islamic fundamentalists, she nonetheless put herself forward publicly in October 2007 as a candidate for prime minister of Pakistan, a post she had held twice before. Two months later, on Dec. 27, she was assassinated. Like many non-…
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30PM on March 11, 2013