Politico International: Former Pakistan prime minister assassinated

Her father “Sulfakar Ali Bhutto” was hanged by the Pakistan military

The blatant assassination of Benazir Bhutto today in Rawalpindi today, December 27, 2007 is a great loss of beloved, courageous but a controversial leader. She has both a lot of enemies and a lot of supporters. Her father who was also a prime minister and was part of the Pakistani leaders, following the founding of Pakistan in 1947. Sulfakhar Ali Bhutto was sentenced to death by a former president of Pakistan, who was also a General in the Pakistani army. The man who led that country to become a separate Muslim from India was Mawlana Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Mohamed Ali Jinnah was a friend of the legendary Mahatma Gandhi. He is revered in Pakistan and seen as a hero.

Bhutto, at the time of the assassination was just leaving a political rally where she addressed her supporters for next months parliamentary elections. she was killed by an attacker who first opened fire on her and then blew himself up.

This was the second attempt on her life since she came back from exile in October this year. In the first assassination, 139 people have been killed.

Government officials said President Pervez Musharraf had been privately told of her death.
The killing of prime minister Bhutto may deepen the political crisis in Pakistan, where Islamic militants have vowed to disrupt the vote and Musharraf’s opponents — including Bhutto — accused him of planning to rig the result.
There have been more than 40 suicide attacks in Pakistan this year that have left at least 770 people dead.

According to some international reports, as I writing this peace, tension is rising through out Pakistan. There is some roiting is taking place in many Pakistan cities such Karachi, Rawalipindi and others. It was also reported some Bhutto supporters are burning tires and attacking police. The assassination of Bhutto has put a nuclear power in an atmosphere of certainity.

Brief Biography

Bhutto, graduated from the two prestigious Universities of Oxford, in Britain and Harvard, in the United States.
She came from a very powerful Pakistani family. She was the first female prime minister of a Muslim country
when she became a prime minister in 1988. She was only 33 at the time. Mrs Bhutto was a very controversial
and beloved leader at the same time. She was a symbol for modernity and democracy in Pakistan. Her father,
also a Pakistani prime minister, was executed by the military government led by General Zia Al-Haq in 1979,
following his removal from power by the military. The assassination of Bhutto will further complicate an already
polarized political environment of the country.

Recalling how she stood at his grave, Bhutto once wrote: “At that moment I pledged to myself that I would not
rest until democracy had returned to Pakistan.”
She had repeatedly accused President Musharraf of being dictator and had been campaigning with fierce
criticisms of what she said was his autocratic rule, vowing her Pakistan People’s Party would deliver
democracy.

Her assassination was condemned around the world including the United States. Another former prime
minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, also condemned the killing.

The words of Nawaz Sharif in front of Rawalpindi hospital and I quote “I assure you that I will fight your war
from now on,” he told Bhutto’s supporters, who were crying and wailing outside the hospital in the city of
Rawalpindi.

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