Benazir Bhutto

Midnight’s Children The history of India and its neighbouring countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is a rich and luminous tale as it encompasses the countless successes and hardships each country experienced during its development as independent entities. In 2012, Deepa Mehta, an Indo-Canadian film director with a screenplay by Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, produced the film “Midnight’s Children.” Together they brought to the screen a magical yet historical tale on the partition of…

Unity, Discipline, and faith is the motto that the Pakistani live by. Pakistan is country that is struggling that is slowly making a rise with their government and there economy. The President of Pakistan and the Prime Minster are key role players in making this happen, and the people of Pakistan support every decision that they make. Pakistan does have a very strong Military that is versatile on ground, air, and water. Which will help them out so they can’t be over thrown easily. Pakistan…

Bangladesh Case Study by: Christie Rosengren, Jessie Patterson, Lara Carpenter, Louisa Matheny, Nathan Toenjes Introduction The small tropical country of Bangladesh is the result of a bitter civil war that divided the country of Pakistan into two nations. The violence of this war is rated as one of the top 5 genocides in the twentieth century by The Guinness Book of Records. Mass murder committed by the Pakistani Army against millions of Bengalis led to East Pakistan seceding from the West…

leading lady mentioned in the book is Benazir Bhutto, the first female Pakistani president “and first in the Islamic world” (Yousafzai&Lamb 44).The only thing Bhutto second in was being Malala’s second role model, as Malala’s father was her first role model.Bhutto’s father influenced and taught Bhutto a lot, and their relationship is similar to Ziauddian’s and Malala’s .Also Benazir was the first,prominent female in Pakistan’s politics, and Malala was like the Benazir in Pakistan’s education…

understanding that women should be treated equally. Further, women were not given the chance to become politically involved in the country or truly work. Benazir Bhutto was the first female prime minister in Islamic history and became a huge role model for Malala. Unfortunately, the Taliban assassinated Bhutto due to her being a female (Benazir Bhutto, 2016). Malala believed that if one woman from her home could play such a significant role in Pakistan there should not be a reason for women…

“I am Malala” is a book following the life of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl who is fighting for girls/women's rights. We see her struggle with wanting to be educated in a country whose majority thinks women should tend to their husbands. Throughout the book we see instances of conflict including the women of Pakistan versus the society there that believes the women are inferior to men. Along with external conflicts, we see Malala deal with internal conflict deciding whether to continue…

Dynastic syndrome or political dynasty is one of the major features of south and south-east Asian politics. Political dynasty means a prominent political family runs the party.A number of women gained the highest leadership positions in the government and the opposition through their family connections.There is no doubt that the rise of female leaders is linked to their being members of prominent families. They are all the daughters, wives, or widows or former government heads or leading…

The murder of a famous individual such as a religious leader, politician, famous celebrity or a royal is known as an assassination. Regardless of the reason that provoked the assassinations, they all ended in the death of a public figure known by all and in most cases loved by the general public which is the reason so much attention is brought to their death in the first place. In some cases, the assassinations have caused chaos and even triggered civil wars. Assassinations can be tracked back…

underground, generations old fight for independence from the central government. The “Stupidity” from Nabokov’s quote is bespoken in novel by radicalized Sunni Muslims, terminating in a dramatic scene involving one of the brother near the novel’s end (Bhutto, 2010). “Oppression” and “Crime” are on view in the investigation of the impoverished people of FATA by the Pakistani military. There is “cruelty” in the killing of children – whether by American drones or by local militants, who bomb a…

fucked. And then thrown in the garbage.” This was the start of women being treated with no respect, because soon after they were talked to with no respect at all. During this time, there were two kinds of women, fundamentalist and modern women. Benazir Bhutto, explains that women should be treated equally to men. During the Iranian Revolution women were not treated equally to men which was one of the results of men not having respect for women. Fundamentalist women dressed in black dresses down…