Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, aides said. "The surgeons confirmed that she has been martyred," Bhutto's lawyer Babar Awan said. A party security adviser said Bhutto was shot in neck and chest as she got into her vehicle to lea

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Benazir Bhutto was many things. Hero to the people. Pioneer of womens rights in the Middle East. Loving wife. Courageous leader. Nope she was none of those.

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Benazir Bhutto was killed as she left a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad, where she had spoken to an audience of thousands ahead of next month’s general election. A member of her PPP party, Mohammad Zaman, told the BBC what happened next:

“The meeting went perfectly well. She delivered her speech, she came down th

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Benazir Bhutto, the late former prime minister of Pakistan was buried today in her home town of Sindh near her father’s grave Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Tens of thousands of people attended the funeral including Late Benazir Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari and Benazir’s son.Her body was carried in a white ambulance for burial ceremony.Presiden

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Just received news from BBC that the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was killed in a attack in Rawalpindi. She was shot in the neck first and than a suicide bomb exploded.
Benazir Bhutto was in a rally in Rawalpindi Musharaaf said to calm down and will catch the terrorists, in the mean time people were shouting DOG MUSHARAF

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Like the Nehru-Gandhi family in India and the Kennedys in America, the Bhuttos of Pakistan are one of the world’s most famous - and troubled - political dynasties. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto is the latest in a string of violent and sometimes mysterious deaths which have led people to describe the family as cursed.

Benazir’s elder

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Benazir Bhutto’s 19-year-old son Bilawal has been chosen to take over her Pakistan People’s Party, after her assassination on Thursday. He will become leader in a ceremonial capacity while he finishes his studies at Oxford University.

Bilawal told journalists at the Bhutto family home: “My mother always said democracy is the best revenge”

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Benazir Bhutto’s supporters say the Pakistani government’s account of how she died is “dangerous nonsense”. A government spokesman said her head was slammed against her vehicle by the blast from a bomb - but colleagues said she died from bullet wounds.

A Pakistani militant, accused by the government of being behind the killing, has denied

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Switzerland said today it had closed an investigation into Benazir Bhutto for alleged money laundering, but a parallel probe into her husband’s activities will continue.

A three-year investigation into allegations that Ms Bhutto used Swiss banks to launder millions of dollars in kickbacks has been closed, her lawyer Alec Reymond said.

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While the elder Zardari is a prominent figure in Pakistani politics, earning a chequered reputation because of allegations that he made big money during Ms Bhutto’s government, his son is a suave, English speaking, Oxford student who has spent much of his life abroad.He said his father would “take care” of the party while he completed his edu

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This is an article about the controversial 2008 election of Pakistan. With the country just rising out of an almost decade long military rule, Pakistan does not hold a very promising future. With childish bickering to come between the three leaders, the sad fate of Pakistan has probably fallen into the wrong hands of Asif Ali

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With Musharraf's departure from the Pakistani political scene, his opposing colleagues have possibly promoted what can become one of Pakistan's greatest disasters. Attempting to impeach him for both is good and bad deeds, the country's politics has sunk to a new low. Mud-slinging like you'll never see in the US election,

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