The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who has been killed, aged 54, in a bomb attack at a political rally in Rawalpindi—the northern town where she had once gone to school—died as she had lived, plunged deep in the chaotic political life of Pakistan, a victim, as well as in part a culprit, of its chronic instability.
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During her life she had been "plunged deep in the chaotic political life of Pakistan, a victim, as well as in part a culprit, of its chronic instability". She died in, or as a result of, these same circumstances.
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During her life she had been "plunged deep in the chaotic political life of Pakistan, a victim, as well as in part a culprit, of its chronic instability". She died in, or as a result of, these same circumstances.