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New York: Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was featured on Parade magazine's cover on Sunday, 10 days after her assassination, and in the accompanying story she warned her enemies wanted her dead.
"I am what terrorists most fear, a female political leader fighting to bring modernity to Pakistan," Bhutto told author Gail Sheehy, who interviewed her weeks earlier in her hometown of Larkana. "Now they're trying to kill me."
Parade's publisher, Randy Siegel, said the magazine went to press on December 21 and was already on its way to the 400 newspapers that distribute it when Bhutto was killed in an attack following a December 27 campaign rally in the city of Rawalpindi.
The web version of the story was updated, Siegel said, but it was too late to change the print magazine. He said the only option other than running the outdated article would have been asking newspapers not to distribute the magazine at all.
"We decided this was an important interview to share with the American people," he said.
Parade, published by Parade Publications, is distributed by Sunday newspapers including the Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
Siegel said almost all of the newspapers ran editor's notes on Sunday explaining the Bhutto interview had gone to press before her death.
He said Sheehy spent several days with Bhutto in late November.
Book release brought forward
HarperCollins will rush out a book submitted by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto just days before her December 27 assassination.
The publisher, a unit of News Corporation, said it was bringing forward the release of Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West to February 12 "with the full support of her family and advisors".
HarperCollins had allegedly given Bhutto an estimated $75,000 (Dh275,518) advance just before she returned to Pakistan in October.
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