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Article: Comment: Hate in a hot climate Pakistan marks half a century of turmoil and terror with the fall of Bhutto, says Tariq Ali
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- November 10, 1996
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AS PAKISTAN approaches its 50th birthday, and celebrates, or
mourns, the second downfall of Benazir Bhutto, the search continues
for an actor to play the part of Pakistan's founding father,
Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Jeremy Irons having declined the offer, an
approach has been made to Christopher Lee. This could prove to be a
stroke of genius. The man whose performances as a vampire for
Hammer Films horror extravaganzas once chilled audiences could
bring something very special to the part.
Not that Jinnah was a destructive monster. Afflicted by
tuberculosis, he died a year after Pakistan was confected in 1947.
He saw Pakistan as a secular, democratic state. He was an admirer
of Kemal Pasha and ...