Bhutto party launches book as 'message from her grave'

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ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Supporters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday launched the book she completed days before her death, hailing it a manifesto on religious tolerance "from her grave".

"Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West", in which Bhutto speculates about her own assassination, hits bookshelves nearly seven weeks after her death in a suicide attack and days before elections which she had hoped to win.

"Before her own life was extinguished, Benazir Bhutto lit a candle and that candle is this memorable book," Tanvir Ahmad Khan, a former foreign secretary of Pakistan under Bhutto, said at the book launch in Islamabad.

"It will doubtless be read widely all over the world. But for people of Pakistan and for Muslims...