Source: Sify
New Delhi: The United Nations is ready to assist Pakistan in conducting a probe into the assassination of Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here on Friday.
However, he indicated the world organisation was not in favour of an independent investigation into the attack.
“I had discussed it with Pakistani authorities. […]

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Source: Guardian 
The career of Pakistan’s low-profile prime minister, who survived an assassination attempt
Yousaf Raza Gilani, a Benazir Bhutto loyalist who was jailed for five years by the former president Pervez Musharraf, became Pakistan’s prime minister in March.
A stalwart of the Pakistan People’s party, he comes from a prominent family of landowners in Multan, in southern […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
Tables have turned for the better for Asif Zardari since the assassination of his wife Benazir Bhutto on 27th December, he is been literally handed the leadership of the most popular party on a silver platter, he then spins it all to his advantage and consequently his party wins the elections to make […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, May 23 (Xinhua) — Pakistan on Friday withdrew the cases against 200 suspects allegedly involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto citing lack of evidence.
“The chief minister of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) ordered the withdrawal of cases against 200 accused in Benazir Bhutto murder case,” Pakistan’s private Dawn […]

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Source: The News
By Qudssia Akhlaque
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan’s removal on Friday has raised many questions as some link his unceremonious ouster to his strong dissent to the PPP-led government’s plan of approaching the UN for an independent international investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.
The Establishment Division on Friday issued two separate notifications dated 25 […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
The tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto has quite a number of conspiracy theorists lining up to offer their analysis, was it fate or destiny we may never know but some have gone to speculate it may have been the Bhutto curse where all members of the Bhutto dynasty are slowly eradicated, and in […]

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Source: CNN
The man blamed for the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has declared a cease-fire now that the former Pakistan prime minister’s party is in power, a government official said.
Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, was accused by President Pervez Musharraf of masterminding Bhutto’s assassination last year — a conclusion also made […]

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Source: AFP
KARACHI (AFP) — An alleged Al-Qaeda militant detained over a bombing at Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming parade which killed 139 people was rearrested soon after he was freed on bail by a court, officials said Thursday.
A court on Wednesday granted bail to Qari Saifullah Akhtar — who had been accused by the former premier of […]

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Source: IPS News
By Amir Mir
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28 (IPS) - The arrest of top militant leader Qari Saifullah Akhtar may have brought Pakistani intelligence agencies closer to discovering any conspiracy behind the Dec. 27 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. But many believe the opposite to be true.
Qari, chief of the militant group Harkatul Jehadul […]

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Source: Times of India
WASHINGTON: Asking the US to stop backing President Pervez Musharraf who had been rejected by the Pakistani people, victorious PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari said he intended to form a “broad-based, democratic, liberal” government.
“Now is the time for miracles in Pakistan…. The international community, especially the United States, must support us in […]

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Source: The New York Times
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Two men arrested last week in connection with the assassination plot that killed Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader, admitted that they provided a suicide jacket and pistol to her attacker, said Chaudhry Abdul Majid, the police official leading the investigation. He said the two, Hasnain Gul and Rafaqat, […]

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The Scotland Yard team, which conducted an investigation into the death of former PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto, said her death was not caused by a bullet.
The text of probe report, which was presented to the interior ministry, said the death of Benazir Bhutto was caused by the force and intensity of suicide bomb blast, which […]

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Source: Reuters
By Faisal Aziz
GARHI KHUDA BAKSH, Pakistan, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Chants of Koranic verses and sombre hymns resonated throughout Benazir Bhutto’s ancestral village in southern Pakistan on Thursday as thousands gathered at the assassinated former prime minister’s tomb to mark a 40th and final day of mourning.
Conspiracy theories still swirl over who was behind […]

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Source: AP
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Benazir Bhutto’s party made public Tuesday the will in which she endorsed her husband to succeed her — a move that could polish his leadership credentials ahead of this month’s elections.
In the handwritten, one-page letter dated Oct. 16 — two days before her return to Pakistan from exile and 2 […]

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Source: AFP
LONDON (AFP) — Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide attack last year, was informed of four suicide bomber squads who were targeting her, extracts from her soon-to-be-released memoirs revealed Sunday.
According to Bhutto, who had been campaigning in Rawalpindi ahead of planned elections when she was killed on December 27, […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
“The first thing I want to do is to release all political prisoners,” she announced as our meeting on November 30, 1988 began at Dr Zafar Niazi’s house in Islamabad. In the elections held after the death of General Zia-ulHaq, the PPP, despite all efforts of the agencies, had succeeded in the […]

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 Source: Teeth Maestro
A list of questions poised by Mr. Akram Sheikh for Mr. Asif Zardari where he has raised some good and valid questions for everyone to ponder over

With the NRO still around, striking down all corruption cases, and having become president of PPP and also having sole control over all of Benazir’s property and […]

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In Pakistan, Democracy has only been seen as a catch word. During the sixty or so years of its independence, Pakistan has undergone several extended military rules and the few so-called ‘democracic rules’ that were there were used by the civilian masters only to enrich themselves or to grab more power. But even so, every […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani intelligence officials said today they arrested a 15-year-old suspect in the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, as police announced they had foiled new suicide attacks by militants against the country’s Shiite minority.
The teenager, who allegedly said he was part of a team of assassins […]

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Source: Reuters
By Robert Birsel
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf heads off on a four-country trip to Europe this weekend where he is expected to face tough questions over his rule while shoring up international support.
Musharraf, whose popularity at home has slumped over recent months, will be leaving a country racked by militant attacks and […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
An agency inquiry finds ’strong indications’ that Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud and his associates were behind the slaying.
By Josh Meyer
WASHINGTON — The CIA believes that Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mahsud and his associates, some linked to Al Qaeda, were responsible for the assassination last month of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, […]

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Source: Global Research
By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a Nation.
The process of US sponsored “regime change”, which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken. Discredited in the eyes of Pakistani […]

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Source: Khaleej Times
BY SHEKHAR GUPTA
9 January 2008
PAKISTANIS surely coin more colorful political slogan than us. They are also less subtle. So, the next time you see visuals of a PPP protest rally on your TV screens following Benazir’s assassination, strain your ears a bit to catch a most telling slogan: Amreeka ne kutta paala, vardi […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Khalid Qayum and Farhan Sharif
Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) — President Pervez Musharraf, battling civil unrest and a surge in terrorist attacks, is facing growing discontent caused by record wheat prices and power cuts in Pakistan.
“The flour crisis is bad, but in ordinary times it would not have been an impossible policy problem,” said Adil […]

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Source: Daily Times
 

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