Islamabad, Feb. 25: Pirated copies of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto’s new book, ‘Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West’, are selling like hot cakes in Rawalpindi and adjoining areas.

According to the Daily Times, original and pirated copies of the 328-page book, launched by Harper Collins publishing house last week, are available at bookstores and Saddar book Bazaar’s stalls.

The original book is priced at Rs. 1, 300, but its pirated version can be purchased for Rs. 395.

The paper also found that sales of pirated copies of Benazir Bhutto’s autobiography, ‘Daughter of the East’, and her father and PPP founder chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s book, ‘If I am Assassinated’, have increased manifold following Benazir’s killing on December 27, 2007. (ANI)