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The Dream that was Benazir

My views towards this ex-Prime Minister had changed - turning cynical soon after that first editorial cartoon. That first drawing stands unique in my Bhutto-cartoon-portfolio. Subsequent editorials, bar that first drawing, depict her with the virtues of an asp. That innocent, fluttering white headscarf that I had drawn years ago had metastasized into a symbol of excess and corruption...

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