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1988 heralded a change of the guard in Pakistan, with Benazir Bhutto of the Pakistan People's Party winning office. The once unlikely prospect of a 35 year old woman becoming leader of a Muslim nat...

1988 heralded a change of the guard in Pakistan, with Benazir Bhutto of the Pakistan People's Party winning office. The once unlikely prospect of a 35 year old woman becoming leader of a Muslim nation was now a reality. That same year, Mikhail Gorbachev took over as leader of the Soviet Union, signaling the beginning of the end of communism in the USSR.

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