UW history professor and south Asian scholar Robert Frykenberg describes former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination as a defeat for peace in Pakistan.
“A lot of hope was pinned on her. She was very charismatic person, a great speaker. She probably would have won the election,” Frykenberg says.
That hope was for political stability in the country.
Frykenberg says since it’s inception 60 years ago- Pakistan has been a lawless country.