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Almost 15 years ago, on a bloodless winter night in Rawalpindi, Pakistan’s top popular politician was assassinated at a political rally just weeks before the election she was seeking to win.
When news arrived late Thursday night that former Prime Minister Imran Khan, now arguably Pakistan’s dominant political figure, had been shot dead at a political rally, it was hard not to feel the turmoil that followed Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. For a brief moment before his death, it seemed that Pakistan was on the road to greater political stability. Since his assassination, this stability has been difficult to achieve.
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