2006年VOA标准英语-Bhutto Dismisses Interpol Notice as Politi

By Gary Thomas
Washington
26 January 2006

Pakistan's former prime minister has rejected the issuance of an Interpol notice against her, calling it a political maneuver¹ by the Pakistani government.  Benazir Bhutto spoke² at a press conference at the Voice of America in Washington. 

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Benazir Bhutto   
  

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto dismissed Interpol's so-called red notices as part of a political campaign against her by President Pervez Musharraf.

"My husband and I have faced these scurrilous³, baseless, malicious⁴, and politically motivated charges for the past nine years," she said.  "And by the grace of God, there's not a single conviction against either my husband or myself for fraud or for corruption⁵."

The government has pledged to arrest Bhutto if she returned to Pakistan.  Bhutto Thursday reiterated⁶ her statement of last year that she was ready to immediately go back to Pakistan to face any charges.

"As far as I'm concerned, if any court wants me in Pakistan, I'm prepared to catch the next plane and go to Pakistan," she said.  "So it is not an issue of my evading⁷ presence in a court.  But no court in Pakistan to my knowledge has asked me to present.  And I believe that Interpol has not been given the correct facts by the military regime in Pakistan."

Bhutto served two separate terms as prime minister in the 1990s.  She was ousted⁸ in 1996, and left Pakistan in 1999 amid a string of corruption charges. She has not been back since.

Interpol, the international police agency, issued the notices against Bhutto and husband Asif Ali Zardari.  An Interpol spokesman said the red notices are not arrest warrants, as is commonly thought.  However, the spokesman said, many of Interpol's member countries consider a Red Notice a valid⁹ request for provisional arrest, especially if they are linked to the requesting country via a bilateral¹⁰ extradition¹¹ treaty.

Zardari was jailed for eight years without any legal resolution and was released on bail¹² in 2004.  He said he has been in the United States for the past several months for medical treatment related to his long imprisonment¹³.

Benazir Bhutto   
  
Bhutto added that she believes the charges against her are part of a government campaign to divert the attention of the Pakistani media from a recent U.S. missile strike on suspected al-Qaida sanctuaries¹⁴ along the Pakistan-Afghan border.

"I believe that the Interpol notices come now, because there was a lot of media interest in whether General Musharraf knew about the strikes that took place around January 12 or 13," she added.

Civilians¹⁵, as well as some suspected al-Qaida figures, died in the strike, igniting anti-U.S. demonstrations¹⁶.  The government has said it did not know of the strikes in advance.

Bhutto says the government campaign against her and her secular¹⁷-based Pakistan Peoples' Party has empowered the extremist Islamist religious parties.

"They have filled the vacuum caused by the military regime's determination to sideline the secular, liberal, and democratic forces of Pakistan," she added.  "And due to that policy of marginalizing the democratic opposition¹⁸, extremism has replaced moderation in Pakistan."

Islamic religious parties, most of which have demonstrated some sympathy with the Taleban and al-Qaida, control or have significant influence in the provincial¹⁹ governments of the two Pakistan provinces that border Afghanistan.

1 maneuver   

n.策略[pl.]演习；v.(巧妙)控制；用策略

参考例句：

• All the fighters landed safely on the airport after the military maneuver.在军事演习后，所有战斗机都安全降落在机场上。
• I did get her attention with this maneuver.我用这个策略确实引起了她的注意。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 scurrilous   

adj.下流的，恶意诽谤的

参考例句：

• Scurrilous and untrue stories were being invented.有人正在捏造虚假诽谤的故事。
• She was often quite scurrilous in her references to me.她一提起我,常常骂骂咧咧的。

4 malicious   

adj.有恶意的，心怀恶意的

参考例句：

• You ought to kick back at such malicious slander. 你应当反击这种恶毒的污蔑。
• Their talk was slightly malicious.他们的谈话有点儿心怀不轨。

5 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

6 reiterated   

反复地说，重申( reiterate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• "Well, I want to know about it,'she reiterated. “嗯，我一定要知道你的休假日期，"她重复说。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• Some twenty-two years later President Polk reiterated and elaborated upon these principles. 大约二十二年之后，波尔克总统重申这些原则并且刻意阐释一番。

7 evading   

逃避( evade的现在分词 )； 避开； 回避； 想不出

参考例句：

• Segmentation of a project is one means of evading NEPA. 把某一工程进行分割，是回避《国家环境政策法》的一种手段。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• Too many companies, she says, are evading the issue. 她说太多公司都在回避这个问题。

8 ousted   

驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 )； 革职； 罢黜； 剥夺

参考例句：

• He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
• He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。

9 valid   

adj.有确实根据的；有效的；正当的，合法的

参考例句：

• His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
• Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗？

10 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

11 extradition   

n.引渡（逃犯）

参考例句：

• The smuggler is in prison tonight,awaiting extradition to Britain.这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
• He began to trouble concerning the extradition laws.他开始费尽心思地去想关于引渡法的问题。

12 bail   

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

参考例句：

• One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
• She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

13 imprisonment   

n.关押，监禁，坐牢

参考例句：

• His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
• He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。

14 sanctuaries   

n.避难所( sanctuary的名词复数 )；庇护；圣所；庇护所

参考例句：

• The designation of special marine reserves and marine sanctuaries shall be subject to the State Council for approval. 海洋特别保护区、海上自然保护区的确定，须经国务院批准。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• After 1965 he acquiesced when they established sanctuaries on that soil. 1965年以后，他默认了他们在那块土地上建立庇护所。 来自辞典例句

15 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

16 demonstrations   

证明( demonstration的名词复数 )； 表明； 表达； 游行示威

参考例句：

• Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
• The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。

17 secular   

n.牧师，凡人；adj.世俗的，现世的，不朽的

参考例句：

• We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
• Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。

18 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

19 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。