'It is time for reconciliation,' Zardari says Exclusive interview with Benazir Bhutto's husband Harlan Ullman Thursday, May 29, 2008 There is no question that Pakistan has suffered through a long period of economic mismanagement and social neglect. The new government has inherited an almost untenable crisis in the food and energy sectors. Public education is in a state of disarray that allows political madrassas [religious schools] to fill the vacuum, and, in turn, produce a successor generation of extremists. Literacy has decreased, and the rate of female illiteracy is particularly appalling. This contrasts with the state of the nation when the last PPP government was in power. The economy was booming and the World Bank listed Pakistan as one of the 10 great emerging markets in the world. International investment in Pakistan quadrupled. The health plans of the government were so innovative that the World Health Organization gave its coveted Gold Medal to my wife Benazir Bhutto'sgovernment. We had built