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Yesterday morning’s news that twice former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had been assassinated shook me. Not because it was unexpected, sadly. But rather because even as a young girl I remember looking up to her with a certain amount of awe. I didn’t know that she was the first female head of state in a Muslim nation, I just knew she was a female head of state when there weren’t many others, especially in the country where I was living.

Criticisms of her politics have come from both the liberal side and the ultra orthodox extremists who have taken credit for killing her in a suicide bombing yesterday at a rally but female leaders in Latin America have spoken publicly about a woman, who for them, was also a role model.

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