Benazir Bhutto A Biography

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,/br> Hundreds of thousands of mourners paid last respects to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Friday (Dec. 28, 2007) as she was buried at her family's mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, the southern province of Sindh.







Bhutto was killed when an assassin fired shots and then blew himself up after an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi on Dec. 27. The attack also killed 28 others and wounded at least another 100. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced three days of mourning.







Hundreds of thousands of mourners were shown on television weeping and struggling to touch her simple wooden coffin covered with the Pakistani flag. Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, her three children and her sister Sanam attended the burial. Bhutto was buried alongside her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's first popularly elected prime minister who was later on executed by hanging.







The shooting and bombing attack on the charismatic former prime minister plunged Pakistan into turmoil. Pakistan is armed with nuclear weapons and is a key U.S. ally in the war on terrorism. Furious supporters rampaged through several cities, torching cars, trains and stores in violence that left at least 23 dead. Pakistan’s election commission announced Jan. 2 that parliamentary elections would be postponed until Feb. 18, a delay of six weeks.





Bhutto reportedly had been planning to give two visiting American lawmakers a 160-page report accusing the Musharraf government of taking steps to rig the Jan. 8 vote. The meeting was scheduled for a few hours after she was killed.







"The United States strongly condemns this cowardly act by murderous extremists who are trying to undermine Pakistan's democracy," President Bush said from his ranch near Crawford, Texas. "Those who committed this crime must be brought to justice." The attacker struck just minutes after Bhutto addressed a rally of thousands of supporters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, 8 miles south of Islamabad. She died after hitting her head on part of her vehicle's sunroof -- not as a result of bullets or shrapnel, a spokesman for Pakistan's Interior Ministry said.





President Musharraf said Jan. 2 he had asked a team of investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard to assist in the investigation into Bhutto’s killing. Meantime, Pakistan's Interior Ministry also revealed that it had ''irrefutable evidence'' showing that al Qaeda was behind Bhutto's assassination.







Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema said the government had recorded an "intelligence intercept" in which “al Qaeda leader” Baitullah Mehsud "congratulated his people for carrying out this cowardly act." Mehsud is regarded as the commander of pro-Taliban forces in the lawless Pakistani tribal region South Waziristan, where al-Qaida fighters are also active. Mehsud has denied involvement.



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