Bhutto book release advanced

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Bhutto book release advanced

Harper Collins will publish "Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West," by Benazir Bhutto on Feb. 12, six days before Pakistan's postponed parliamentary elections are to take place. Harper Collins advanced publication from April 8 after Ms. Bhutto, the two-time former prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated at a rally on Dec.27. In the book, completed just days before she was killed, Ms. Bhutto, who collaborated with her friend Mark Siegel, a Washington lobbyist, argues that Islam should be reconciled with democratic principles. The book opens with the chronicle of her return to Pakistan in October after eight years of exile and the assassination attempt upon her return. Her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, now chairman of the Pakistan People's Party, has written an afterword of her three children. "No one could have know that these would be Benazir Bhutto's final words, and somehow that makes them carry even more weigh, especially at a time like this," said Tim Dugan, who edited the book. "This book is her legacy." Harper Collins has also bought paperback rights to "Daughter of the East," Ms. Bhutto's autobiography, originally published in Britain in 1988. It will be reissued in the United States in the spring under the title "Daughter of Destiny."

Source: Saudi Gazette