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Co-Ordinated Assassinations Aimed At Bhutto And Another Opposition Leader

A few minutes before she was attacked by a gunman and suicide bomber, Benazir Bhutto praised a crowd a supporters at a rally.

This Daily Mail report claims Benazir Bhutto was shot twice, in the neck and the chest, as she entered a vehicle shortly after giving a speech. Seconds later, a suicide bomber detonated himself next to her vehicle :

A reporter at the scene said he saw body parts and flesh scattered at the back gate of the Liaqat Bagh park where Bhutto had spoken.

He counted about 20 bodies, including police, and could see many other wounded.

Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October after eight years self-imposed exile.

She had been running for parliament and hoped to become prime minister if her party won enough legislative seats.

At her homecoming reception in the port city of Karachi, suicide bombing attacks killed 140 people.

This Wednesday, at a rally in Peshawar, police stopped a would-be suicide bomber with explosives around his neck.

Another, far more fierce critic of Pakistan’s President Musharraf was also targeted by assassins a few hours earlier, with snipers shooting into the crowd at a speech by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. At least four were killed in that attack.

Some reports are now claiming that President Musharraf was sitting by Bhutto’s hospital bed shortly before she died.

Bhutto’s dream of a new, more democratic Pakistan, free of military rule, is over. She has given her life trying to set her people free. Here are her words on her return to Pakistan in October, after eight years in exile :

“The people that you see outside are the real image of Pakistan.

“These are the decent, hard-working, middle classes and working classes of Pakistan who want to be in power so that they can build a moderate modern nation where everybody has equality.

This is the real Pakistan, and if we get democracy, this is the face of Pakistan the world will see, not the face of extremists who have thrived under dictatorships.”

“I hope I can live up to the great expectations which people here have.

“…certain people who have gained a lot through dictatorship….They have presided over the rise of extremism, they have created safe havens in the tribal areas of Pakistan for the Taliban and other militants, and they fear my return.”

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