Few ironies could be more bitter than the publication of a book on reconciliation shortly after its author has been murdered. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated late last year while campaigning for an election in Pakistan, now due to be held on February 18th. She had just returned from eight years in exile, some of which she had spent on this book. "Reconciliation" seeks to resolve "two historic clashes unfolding in the world today": one within her religion, Islam, and the other between Islam and the West. It is a noble if Utopian aim. Bhutto was nothing if not ambitious.
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