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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Oct-18-07 06:35 AM
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Huge crowds greet Bhutto return

Source: BBC

Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has boarded an open-top bus to begin a triumphant procession from Karachi airport to the city centre.
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There is a huge security presence amid Islamist assassination threats.

Ms Bhutto was accompanied on the flight from Dubai by about 100 members of her Pakistan People's Party (PPP).

At least 200,000 people have turned out to greet her in Karachi, lining the 6km (four mile) route from the airport into the city.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7050274.stm

Wow - that's a big crowd, for a politician. Things are going to be 'interesting' in Pakistan in the next few months.

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IsItJustMe

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Thu Oct-18-07 07:42 AM
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1. She got big ones.

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Marrah_G

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Thu Oct-18-07 07:46 AM
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2. With the resuragance of the Taliban in Pakistan she might not live long

Hopefully she can turn the people back away from the radicals.

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