Pakistan Opposition Leader to End Exile
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto intends to risk arrest by returning home at the end of March from exile in London, her spokesman said Sunday.
Bhutto, leader of her executed father’s Pakistan People’s Party, will launch a political tour throughout Pakistan, spokesman Bashir Riaz said.
Her return would test a government pledge to allow free political activity after 8 1/2 years of martial law ended Jan. 1, Riaz added.
Bhutto, 32, came to London in 1984. She returned to Pakistan last August and was placed under house arrest by President Zia ul-Haq’s military government until she returned to Europe in November.
Her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was ousted in a 1977 military coup led by Zia and was hanged in 1979 on charges of conspiring to murder a political opponent.
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