LATER, AFTER the bombs and all the carnage, when her country’s triumphant celebration had gone terribly wrong, what Amna Buttar would remember most were the looks on the faces of Benazir Bhutto’s teenage daughters hours earlier when they told their mother goodbye at the airport in Dubai.
….Buttar was on the plane with the former prime minister that flew from Dubai to Karachi, Pakistan last Thursday, and — for a time — in the parade that ended when a suicide bomber set off explosives that killed 134 and injured around 500.
Buttar, until recently a physician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, had been asked by Bhutto to accompany her on her historic return to Pakistan last week after eight years in exile.