Posted in News Briefs, tagged Benazir on February 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The party of the assassinated former PM Benazir Bhutto launched the book she completed just days before her death. Entitled, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, Bhutto hauntingly speculates about her own assassination and discusses the issues currently plaguing the country. The Washington Post’s Pamela Constable wrote today, “There are some things only the dead [...]
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Posted in News Briefs, tagged Benazir, PPP on February 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Friday, results from the widely-reported Scotland Yard investigation into the assassination of Bhutto’s death dominated press coverage of Pakistan. According to the NY Times this morning, the investigation revealed that Bhutto died after hitting her head as she was tossed by the force of the suicide blast, not from an assassin’s bullet, as [...]
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Posted in News Briefs, tagged Benazir, PPP, Terrorism on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On Thursday, Pakistani police arrested two suspects in the suicide attack that killed former PM Benazir Bhutto on December 27th. According to the Associated Press, “Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said the two men were arrested in Rawalpindi… but gave no further details.” Cheema added that he expected the two to appear in “anti-terrorism [...]
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Posted in News Briefs, tagged Benazir, PPP, Zardari on February 5, 2008 | 6 Comments »
On Tuesday, newswires reported that assassinated former PM Benazir Bhutto’s party, the PPP (Pakistan’s People’s Party) published her political will, in which she called for her husband to lead the party and said she feared for the country’s future. Reuters cited a party spokesman who said “the will was being released to end any doubts [...]
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Posted in News Briefs, tagged Benazir, Terrorism on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In yet another twist to the unfathomable Bhutto assassination: news sources reported this morning that the Pakistani police has arrested a teenager who was allegedly part of a five-man squad in the plot to kill the former PM last month. According to the AFP news agency, “The suspect, 15-year-old Aitezaz Shah, was [...]
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An interesting development was released today: According to news sources, the CIA (the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) has added its support to the Pakistani government view that Al Qaeda and Pakistani militant, Baitullah Mehsud were behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on December 27th. In an interview released by the Washington Post today, CIA chief [...]
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Posted in News Briefs, tagged Benazir, Musharraf on January 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
An opinion poll conducted by Gallup Pakistan found that nearly half of the 1,300 Pakistani men and women surveyed suspect that “government agencies or government-linked politicians” killed Benazir Bhutto, reported an Associated Press article today. According to the news agency, the findings highlighted the “popular mistrust” of the Musharraf government just ahead of the February [...]
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