2006年VOA标准英语-Pakistan Seeks Arrest of Former Prime Mini

By Benjamin Sand
Islamabad
26 January 2006

Following a request from the Pakistani Government the international crime fighting organization, Interpol, has issued so-called red notices seeking the arrest of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari.

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Benazir Bhutto (File photo - 29 November 2005)
  

Interpol officials say the notices are meant to assist Pakistani authorities in their hunt for the former prime minister and her husband.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao confirmed the so-called red notices during an official statement Thursday.

He says the government submitted an official request to Interpol earlier this month for the international notices.

An Interpol spokeswoman says the red notices are not considered international arrest warrants and each of Interpol's 184 member countries are free to respond as they see fit.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been living in self-imposed exile since 1999 to avoid prosecution¹ in several high-profile corruption² cases.

She was prime minister twice in the late 1980s and early 1990s but both times her governments were dismissed on charges of misrule and corruption.

Her husband faces similar charges and spent eight years in jail until Pakistan's supreme³ court ordered his release on bail⁴ in 2004.

In November, anti-corruption judges declared both Bhutto and her husband fugitives⁵ after they failed to appear in court.

They head Pakistan's leading opposition⁶ group, the Pakistan People's Party, and they say the cases against them are politically motivated.

"Whatever the government of Pakistan has may have stated in its letter to Interpol must be a perversion⁷ of justice [and] must be a manipulation of the legal and judicial⁸ process in Pakistan," said Farhatullah Babar, a spokesman for Bhutto's party.

Benazir Bhutto and her husband are currently touring the United States. She is scheduled to hold a news conference at the Voice of America headquarters in Washington later Thursday to discuss the war on terrorism and the future of democracy in Pakistan.

1 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

2 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。

3 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

4 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。

5 fugitives   

n.亡命者，逃命者( fugitive的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Three fugitives from the prison are still at large. 三名逃犯仍然未被抓获。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Members of the provisional government were prisoners or fugitives. 临时政府的成员或被捕或逃亡。 来自演讲部分

6 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。

7 perversion   

n.曲解；堕落；反常

参考例句：

• In its most general sense,corruption means the perversion or abandonment.就其最一般的意义上说，舞弊就是堕落，就是背离准则。
• Her account was a perversion of the truth.她所讲的歪曲了事实。

8 judicial   

adj.司法的，法庭的，审判的，明断的，公正的

参考例句：

• He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
• Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。