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HarperCollins rushing Bhutto-written book

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Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:29pm EST
Pakistan's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto attends an election rally in Rawalpindi December 27, 2007, shortly before she was killed in a gun and bomb attack. HarperCollins is rushing into print a manuscript it recently received from Bhutto, the New York Post reported on Friday. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed

NEW YORK (Reuters) - HarperCollins is rushing into print a manuscript it recently received from slain former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the New York Post reported on Friday.

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The publisher, a unit of News Corp, hopes to have Bhutto's "Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West" in bookstores by February, Post business columnist Keith J. Kelly reported. The Post is also owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Bhutto, the two-time prime minister and leading opposition figure, was assassinated during a campaign rally in Pakistan on Thursday.

HarperCollins had given Bhutto an estimated $75,000 advance just before she returned to Pakistan in October after years of living in exile, the Post said.

Mark Siegel worked with Bhutto as a collaborating writer, the Post reported.

HarperCollins representatives were not available for comment.

(Reporting by Daniel Trotta, editing by Doina Chiacu)
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