Benazir was not an ordinary mortal. Both in life as well as her death, she maintained the grace and dignity and demonstrated to what heights humans can rise to leave a legacy, which lends pride to a nation. The fact that she is rated the second woman only to Hillary Clinton, the prospective female leader of the most powerful nation of the world - USA - is itself a great recognition to her well-rounded qualities. That she was the first Muslim woman to become the Prime Minister of a country is again a great achievement. She was elected twice as the popular leader of Pakistan, and had she not been eliminated, through dastardly death, she was bound to emerge as the leader of crisis to extricate the nation from the lingering shadow of dictatorial rule that has sapped the morale of the people and created a climate of diffidence that perhaps the country's political culture is beyond repair.
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