Benazir Bhutto

Bugti demands Musharraf’s arrest to expose his father’s, Bhutto’s killers

Benazir BhuttoLahore, Dec. 31 : The Jamhoori Watan Party chief, Talal Bugti has demanded Musharraf's arrest, so that the killers of his father, Akbar Bugti and the former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto, could be exposed.

Bugti said that he does not support the separatism and the movement of militancy, which started due to the policies of former President General Pervez Musharraf.

He also accused Musharraf for dividing Pakistan and bombing Balochistan with tanks and missiles.

He said the people of Balochistan were patriots, and his party's manifesto was that the Baloch people should control Baloch resources.

Sharif, Shujaat say Benazir’s death an irreparable loss for Pakistan

Sharif, Shujaat say Benazir’s death an irreparable loss for PakistanLahore, Dec 28: Pakistan's main opposition parties have said that the death of former premier Benazir Bhutto is an irreparable loss for the country.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif said Benazir spent her life struggling to turn Pakistan into a real democracy.

Benazir’s murder mystery likely to remain under wraps forever

Benazir’s murder mystery likely to remain under wraps foreverIslamabad, Dec 27: Fears are being expressed that Pakistan's former premier Benazir Bhutto's murder would always remain under wraps, as people privy to the proceedings and progress in the investigations say that unravelling of the mystery shrouding the crime could lead to startling revelations, if ever made public, with serious political implications.

The chances of Benazir's assassination remaining unresolved, like other high-profile murder cases in the country's chequered history, appears to be high, The News reported.

Record sale of Benazir Bhutto’s pictures

Record sale of Benazir Bhutto’s picturesRawalpindi, Dec. 27 : On the eve of her first death anniversary, the sale of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's portraits and pictures, touched a record high.

The Rawalpindi city is flooded with the stalls selling Bhutto's pictures, however, the largest collection of Benazir Bhutto's pictures was available near Liaquat Bagh, where she was assassinated on December 27, 2007, The News reported.

Bhutto has acquired the status of `heroine of democracy' in the Pakistan post her assassination.

UN wants to investigate Benazir Bhutto''s assassination

UN wants to investigate Benazir Bhutto''s assassinationUnited Nations, Dec. 27 : Ahead of the first death anniversary of Pakistan's former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, the UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon has assured Pakistani people of his commitment to investigate the Bhutto's assassination case.

Ban ki-Moon issued a statement saying that a commission would be set up to investigate the murder of the former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto, The News reported.

Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, after addressing an election rally in a suicide bomb attack in Rawalpindi.

Pakistan to remember Bhutto on anniversary of assassination

Pakistan to remember Bhutto on anniversary of assassinationIslamabad  - It will be all praise for Benazir Bhutto as Pakistan Saturday reveres its former prime minister on the anniversary of her assassination while campaigning for a third term in office.

Tens of thousands of followers were to assemble in the small town of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in the southern province of Sindh where Bhutto lies in a family tomb.

She was killed along with three dozen other people in a suicide gun-and-bomb attack soon after she completed an election rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi on December 27 last year.

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