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Bhutto Assasinated
#7803287 - 12/27/07 09:16 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Bhutto Assasinated
BBC.co.uk: Quote:
Pakistani former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated in a suicide attack. Ms Bhutto had just addressed an election rally in Rawalpindi when she was shot in the neck by a gunman who then set off a bomb.
At least 15 other people died in the attack and several more were injured.
President Pervez Musharraf and his government called on people to remain calm so that the "nefarious designs of terrorists can be defeated."
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack.
Ms Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), had twice been the country's prime minister and had been campaigning ahead of elections due in January.
It was the second suicide attack against her in recent months and came amid a wave of bombings targeting security and government officials.
Nawaz Sharif, also a former prime minister and a political rival, said her death was a tragedy for "the entire nation".
"It is not a sad day, it is the darkest, gloomiest day in the history of this country," he said, speaking at the hospital where she was taken.
The United Nations Security Council is to meet for emergency consultations shortly to discuss the situation in Pakistan after the killing.
The attack occurred close to an entrance gate of the park in Rawalpindi where Ms Bhutto had been speaking.
People were distraught at the scene of the blast
Police confirmed reports Ms Bhutto had been shot in the neck and chest before the gunman blew himself up.
She died at 1816 (1316 GMT), said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of the PPP who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital.
Some supporters at the hospital wept while others exploded in anger, throwing stones at cars and breaking windows.
Police in the north-western city of Peshawar are reported to have used tear gas and batons to break up a demonstration by angry Bhutto supporters and there were also protests in other cities.
Mr Sharif said there had been a "serious lapse in security" by the government.
But an old friend of Ms Bhutto, Salman Tassir, told the BBC World Service he did not think criticism should be directed at the government.
"There have been suicide attacks on Gen Musharraf also," he told Newshour.
"... I mean it is extremism and the fanatics who are to blame."
Earlier on Thursday, at least four people were killed ahead of an election rally Mr Sharif had been preparing to attend close to Rawalpindi.
Ms Bhutto's death has plunged the PPP into confusion and raises questions about whether January elections will go ahead as planned, the BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad says.
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The killing was condemned by the US, the UK and others.
"The attack shows that there are still those in Pakistan trying to undermine reconciliation and democratic development in Pakistan," a US state department official said.
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was "deeply shocked" by Ms Bhutto's death and said "extremist groups... [could] not and must not succeed".
Ms Bhutto returned from self-imposed exile in October after years out of Pakistan where she had faced corruption charges.
Her return was the result of a power-sharing agreement with President Musharraf in which he granted an amnesty that covered the court cases she was facing.
Since her return relations with Mr Musharraf had broken down.
On the day of her return she led a motor cavalcade through the city of Karachi. It was hit by a double suicide attack that left some 130 dead.
BENAZIR BHUTTO Father led Pakistan before being executed in 1979 Spent five years in prison Served as PM from 1988-1990 and 1993-1996 Sacked twice by president on corruption charges Formed alliance with rival ex-PM Nawaz Sharif in 2006 Ended self-imposed exile by returning to Pakistan in October Educated at Harvard and Oxford
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There's Gonna Be some real house cleaning over there. (al Qaeda and the Taliban)
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pull up a chair...I'll make some popcorn.
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Re: Bhutto Assasinated [Re: afoaf]
#7803302 - 12/27/07 09:25 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i bet India is.....
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Bhuttlo?
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Sad that innocent people died though. Why didn't he just shoot and be done with it.
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Quote:
lonestar2004 said: There's Gonna Be some real house cleaning over there. (al Qaeda and the Taliban)
Who is gonna be putting on the apron, Musharaff?
You thinking that sometime in the next 24 hours the world will be getting some kind of a message from Al Qaeda?
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About time... gas prices were starting to drop...
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The death of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto comes two days after she publicly criticized Musharraf for failing to effectively combat Islamic extremists and pledged to crack down on their activity if she won...
musharraf needs to start having daily public AL queda hangings, or India could get involved.
India does not want a civil war in Pakistan.
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Took less time than I thought.
DAMN THEM!
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May she rest in peace
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Yes. And she was really strikingly beautiful when she was younger. As evinced by that picture.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/12/does_bhuttos_death_give_rudy.html
giuliani is already all over this...and while its still too early for me to say "i told you so"..a US fascist dictatorship under giuliani is now all the more likely..if not a foregone conclusion...
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Re: Bhutto Assasinated [Re: Annapurna1]
#7803513 - 12/27/07 11:02 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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i am no fan of Rudy but Hillary has been all over the MSM about how Bhutto was her old friend and "sister in arms" blah blah blah
at least she was not blaming the assassination on Bush or global warming....
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Pakistan is tottaly screwed now, Bhutto was one of the few candidates who didnt take any guff from Al Qaeda, it was a matter of time before she was assassinated.
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I'm really concerned about this. It would be horrible for Pakistan to fall to extremists.
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nicechrisman said: I'm really concerned about this. It would be horrible for Pakistan to fall to extremists.
I doubt they will but they have already occupied a great deal of the Swat Valley and the Northwest Frontier.
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No way Musharraf holds the elections now.
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Madtowntripper said: No way Musharraf holds the elections now.
Its an insanely precarious situation, some bad joojoo will come out of this whole ordeal.
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I'm a little surprised martial law has not been declared yet. There are going to be a whole pile of stinking corpses in NW Pakistan too. Any morons want to tell me about how we should appease the Taliban and AQ again? Just. Fucking. Kill. Them. By any means necessary.
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