The Upstairs Wife

For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the countryƒ??s former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been assassinated at a political rally just outside Islamabad. Back in Karachiƒ??Bhuttoƒ??s birthplace and Pakistanƒ??s other great metropolisƒ??Rafia Zakariaƒ??s family was suffering through a crisis of its own: her Uncle Sohail, the man who had brought shame upon the family, was near death. In that moment these twin catastrophesƒ??one political and public, the other secret and intensely personalƒ??briefly converged.