Benazir Bhutto: Gone But Not Forgotten
“It is not easy being a woman anywhere. Moreover, for woman leaders, the obstacles are greater, the demands are greater, the barriers are greater and the double standards are greater”. Benazir Bhutto
“Is it true that the prime minister of Pakistan is a woman?” asked the female Afghan protagonist of Samira Makhmalbaf’s 2003 film “At five in the afternoon”. Benazir was the first woman to rise to such high power in a country that had just passed a law that gave half as much importance to a woman’s testimony as that of a man.
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