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How Asif Zardari (now President of Pakistan) Courted Benazir Bhutto

Revealing excerpts from Benazir's memoirs. [By Mayank Austen Soofi] As Mr Asif Zardari, the widower of Ms Benazir Bhutto, becomes the new President of Pakistan, We look back into his wife's autobiography, Daughter of Destiny , to find out just how he became Pakistan's First Husband. So, here is the story of how Pakistan's most famous woman got attracted to a rich man's son who would, due to his connections to her , would one day lay claim to his nation's top post. In Ms Benazir Bhutto's own words: Family pressure My personal life had taken a dramatic turn on July 29, 1987, when I agreed to an arranged marriage on the prompting of my family. First whispers started earlier Soon before the family was to gather in Cannes in July 1985, my mother and Auntie Manna approached me with a proposal from the landowning Zardari family on behalf of their son, Asif. Old crush? When we were teenagers, he'd watched me enter and leave the movie theater his father owned. A...