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...of the government and was pardoned the following day, an account he has now contradicted. "The then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto summoned me and named the two countries which were to be assisted," Dr Khan said in an interview with the Jang media group, without...
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The Telegraph
http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568301/s/2383994b/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cnews0Cworldnews0Casia0Cpakistan0C954830A0A0CAQ0EKhan0Eclaims0EBenazir0EBhutto0Eordered0Enuclear0Esale0Bhtml/story01.htm
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...FREE feature this month is Bhutto, a riveting documentary about the life of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. As the first woman to lead an Islamic nation, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's life story unfolds like a tale of Shakespearean...
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Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/indie-movie-in-new-orleans/this-week-s-free-nola-film-screening-bhutto
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...life of Benazir Bhutto, first and only woman Prime Minister of Pakistan, is the subject of the next Community Cinema film, which will be screened at the Montrose Regional Library Tuesday, April 12 at 7 pm in the Library Meeting Room. Bhutto is the story of...
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Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/alternative-education-in-denver/life-of-benazir-bhutto-subject-of-next-community-cinema-film
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...was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack after a public rally outside Liaquat Bagh Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. The Pakistani government had requested the United Nations to establish a commission to probe into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto....
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Dawn
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Islamabad, March 08: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has demanded that the government should immediately register an FIR for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and nab the culprits involved in the attack, a media
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Zee News
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http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=513560&sid=SAS
The Pakistani Legislators elected Fehmida Mizar to Speaker of Parliament. 3/19/2009. She was a follower of Bhutto. Elections were held in March, 2006 in the Pakistani Upper House/Senate. There are 100 seats and 17 were occupied by women. 17% Elections were held in Feburary 2008 for the Lower Single House. There are 338 seats and 76 were occupied by women or 22.5%. "Women have a lot of problems; healthcare, education, jobs," said 45-year-old Yahya, who gave only one name. "There is no proper representation of women in politics here, or in anything else. I expect no change."
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...of Human Rights. This UN gives this award every five years on Dec 10 and this time the award was received by the son of Benazir Bhutto, Bilawal Bhutto, on her behalf. He received this award from the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel DEscoto Brockman....
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The News
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http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=155447
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...Minister Benazir Bhutto. A statement issued here by Ban's spokesperson said, "One year ago, assassins took the life of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. On this painful anniversary, the secretary-general stands in solidarity with the government and the people...
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/27/content_10567928.htm
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... Tens of thousands of Pakistanis gathered at the mausoleum of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on the eve of the first anniversary of her assassination, some of them walking hundreds of miles (kilometers) to get there. Supporters of Pakistan's...
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eTaiwan News
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=823007&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_world&cate_rss=WORLD_eng
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
PESHAWAR: As the dusk fell on the fateful day of December 27 last year, the Pakistani nation lost a charismatic and most popular leader, Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto, to a gun-and-bomb attack amid
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The News
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=154086
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...The government blamed it on Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, but he denied responsibility. A portrait of Benazir Bhutto is seen amongst flowers at a table for a condolence book at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, DC, 27 Dec 2007 The 54-year old...
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Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-12-26-voa49.cfm?rss=politics
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Monday, October 20, 2008
LAHORE: Although, the Sindh government has registered a fresh FIR of the Oct 18 Karsaz attack on Benazir Bhutto, implicating three persons she had suspected, the federal government is reluctant to proceed against former presi...
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The News
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=17907
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...Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP /E milio Morenatti) Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated politician Benazir Bhutto, is promising to unite Pakistan after becoming its new president following a vote by the country's legislators. "Long...
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CTV
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...just that the fast jihad is easier for the western elites to see. readers here at JW can see both as dangerous and deadly. Benazir Bhutto reminded me of that "Palestinian" spokeswoman who was the face of the "Palestinians" back in the 1990s. We in the West...
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Jihad Watch
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021710.php
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...after Benazir Bhutto's death, is now bringing together many old PPP stalwarts to regain the Bhutto legacy. Former premier Benazir Bhutto's niece, Sassi Bhutto is learnt to have arrived in Pakistan from abroad and holding crucial meetings with party workers...
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OneIndia
http://news.oneindia.in/2008/07/04/bhutto-clan-unite-their-legacy-zardaris-1215155160.html
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...life in Karachi on October 18 last year but she was a symbol of the Federation and belonged to Pakistan, he added. He said Benazir Bhuttos priority was health and that was why a programme to combat hepatitis, which affects 20 to 30 percent of the population,...
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The News
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=15498
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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, President Pervez Musharraf's most powerful opponent, has thrown Pakistan into chaos just 12 days before elections. Bhutto died after gunfire and a suicide bomb attack targeted her at a campaign rally outside the
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17638522
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...borne from a feudal dynasty that burdens Fatima Bhutto, the charismatic and outspoken niece of recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto, and daughter of Murtaza Bhutto, himself assassinated in 1996. The twenty five year old published poet, writer, and columnist...
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alt.muslim
http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/a/the_new_daughter_of_destiny/
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...how the U.S. controls Pakistan not just through the military but also through the emasculation of its political process. Benazir Bhuttoâs assassination underlines the danger of being a U.S. puppet in Pakistan, where competition for this post can be fierce...
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UK Indymedia Newswire
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/395208.html
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...end of their talks. "We have fruitful meeting today, we are at the verge of making history, it was the desire of shaheed Benazir Bhutto," Zardari told a joint news conference with Sharif. Sharif and Zardari agreed to reappoint the Supreme Court justices,...
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Islamic Republic News Agency
http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/menu-234/0803092871184434.htm
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The party of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will try to form a coalition goverment without the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League (PML), Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari said on
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won the most
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Ynetnews
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3508820,00.html
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Last year, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, a former interior minister, survived two separate suicide bomb attacks in Charsadda that killed scores of people.
The ANP is a secular ethnic Pashtun group competing in the legislative elections on February
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Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5FC996F4-BCE0-457E-A0B8-E9A1F06F9255.htm
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...URL for this entry: http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/tabhartas.cgi/16906 Scotland Yard has concluded that Benazir Bhutto did not die from a gunshot wound, but instead died from the blast of the suicide bomber's explosion immediately afterward. The Bhutto...
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Captain's Quarters
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...assassination of Benazir Bhutto is perhaps one of the few cases in history of the killing of a popular leader where it is easy to the "minds" and "souls" behind the killing. Before coming to Pakistan after eight years of self-exile, Bhutto repeatedly...
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Courier Press
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/feb/08/powerful-hand-struck-blow-that-silenced-bhutto/
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... The timeline belongs to the 14:38 sequence 00:00:35 David Frost: But first of all Pakistan and Benazir Bhutto. When the former primeminister arrived back in the country, two weeks ago, after eight years in exile, the homecomming parade in Karachi, was...
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UK Indymedia Newswire
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390613.html
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...your mouth, while in your heart -- if you have one -- you despise yourselves for it. -- Mark Twain in Mysterious Stranger Benazir Bhutto's life can be regarded as a microcosm of Third World liberal aristocracy's betrayal of their Countries. The sordid record...
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LENIN'S TOMB
http://leninology.blogspot.com/2008/01/benazir-bhutto-fairytale-princess.html
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...suicide attackers, there is little doubt that Bhutto was killed in a joint Taliban-Al Qaeda operation. The last time I saw Benazir Bhutto was over dinner at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., three weeks before her October return to Pakistan. She was in...
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The New America Foundation
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2008/killer_question_6587
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...Bhutto. "It is just a government propaganda," he said. "We have already clarified that we are not involved in the attack on Benazir Bhutto." Bhutto, a former prime minister, died on December 27 when one member of the squad, whom the teen allegedly
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CNN
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...police have arrested a teenager who was allegedly part of a five-man squad in the plot to kill opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last month, security officials said Saturday. The suspect, 15-year-old Aitezaz Shah, was arrested from the northwestern city of...
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Captain's Quarters
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016681.php
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...al-Qaida linked militants allied with Pakistan's most wanted militant leader, Baitullah Mehsud, killed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last month. A portrait of Benazir Bhutto is seen amongst flowers at a table for a condolence book at the Pakistan Embassy...
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Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-18-voa12.cfm?rss=topstories
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Benazir Bhutto's political party said Monday it may work with Pakistan's president after elections next month despite the leader's apparent unpopularity and allegations elements within his government may have played a role in her
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Macleans.ca
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=w011402A
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...takes on a disturbing political light -- one which the media has failed to draw conclusions from. At this point, Benazir Bhutto's death has been consigned as a fateful tragedy or a kind of cruel inevitability for "that part of the world."Â It's as if Bhutto...
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BAGnewsNotes
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...to Mr. Ali Raadmand regarding Benazir Bhutto Article and observations on Journalistic Ethics The editor of payvand was kind enough to forward me your commentary objecting to my article entitled Benazir's Foolish Death : I would like to say that I welcome critics,...
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Payvand News of Iran
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...Murmurs of dissent have begun over the appointment of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's husband Asif Ali Zardari as her successor to head the country's largest political party, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), after her assassination last month. 'I doubt...
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India eNews
http://www.indiaenews.com/pakistan/20080110/90724.htm
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Delayed elections are the latest effort by the Musharraf government to limit the power of civilian political parties in Pakistan. In this context, the lessons of Benazir Bhutto's life and her ghastly death must be a wake-up call to the Bush
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Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2181459/fr/rss/
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...on terror". Does this explain the enormous coverage given, in all sections of the British press, to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto? I don't think so. Nobody would have lingered long over the story if Bhutto's rival in the Pakistan elections, Nawaz Sharif,...
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/07/pressandpublishing.benazirbhutto?gusrc=rss&feed=media
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...their fortunes. Nineteen-year-old Bilawal is a pawn in a deadly game; so far, he hasn’t had much control over his life. Benazir Bhutto didn’t have much either: In September, she wrote, rather poignantly, “I didn’t choose this life. It chose me.” Similarly,...
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Lawrence Journal World
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/jan/06/dont_mistake_dynasty_democracy/
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...more than four decades. There has even been talk of a "royal" wedding to reconcile the oft-divided family. Ten days after Benazir Bhutto was assassinated as she left a campaign rally, Pakistan is readying itself for what could be an extraordinarily bitter...
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The Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3312753.ece
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...police are expected Saturday to begin examining evidence connected to the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, officials said. The Scotland Yard team is meeting senior Pakistani police and has been briefed on what they know about the...
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Agence France-Presse
http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/080105085128.0ykx2nwa.html
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...assassination of Benazir Bhutto leaves Pakistan on the edge of a precipice, writes Graham Usher in Islamabad Pakistan is still coming to grips with the murder of Benazir Bhutto, twice prime minister and the Muslim world's most female leader. The...
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Al-Ahram Weekly
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/878/fr2.htm
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NPR.org, January 4, 2008 · British anti-terror officers arrived in Pakistan Friday to join a probe into opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination, a day after President Perez Musharraf dismissed allegations that his government had a hand in the sla...
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17841725&ft=1&f=1004
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...officers arrived in Pakistan on Friday morning to join the investigation into the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. The Scotland Yard team, who refused to talk to reporters after arriving at Islamabad Airport, is stepping into the cauldron...
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Spiegel Online
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...assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto caused quite a stir throughout the world, and leaders of many countries immediately condemned the incident. News of her assassination sent the U.S. stock market and dollar plummeting, while prices...
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The Epoch Times
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-1-4/63614.html
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...(AP) President Pervez Musharraf vehemently denied Thursday that Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies were behind Benazir Bhutto's killing, and implied she was partly at fault. Bhutto's killing plunged an already volatile Pakistan deeper into crisis...
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Malaysia Sun
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/11997495/
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The government has been criticised over its security arrangements for Bhutto, who had claimed elements in the ruling party were trying to kill her. The party vehemently denied such a plot. President Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday that Britain's Scotl...
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Malaysia Sun
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/11995076/
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ISLAMABAD, 4 January 2007 — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf yesterday rejected suggestions the government had a hand in the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. He, however, admitted flaws in the investigation of her murder.
For the fir...
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Malaysia Sun
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http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/303b19022816233b/id/11992875/
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...Bhutto, the outstanding icon of Pakistan's struggle for democracy is gone. For those who only saw her as a distant political figure, her human dimension clearly did not matter. That applies to those who vilified her throughout her life, those who failed to...
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Huffington Post
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/husain-haqqani/pakistan-after-benazir-bh_b_79556.html
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...defeating the Taliban would entrench Indian influence over Afghanistan. Would these constraints be any different for Benazir Bhutto? In presenting herself as the only Pakistani politician to openly challenge the militants, wasn't Benazir Bhutto  in effect...
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Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/shahid01022008.html
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...British team would assist local investigators. "We would like to know what were the reasons that led to the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto. I would also like to look into it," Musharraf said in a nationally televised address. The speech intended to calm the anger...
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Captain's Quarters
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016505.php
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... London, Jan 2: The tragedy-prone Bhutto family has resumed the bitter feuding with Mumtaz Bhutto, Benazir's uncle, disputing the appointment of Bilawal as head of the PPP, asserting "You can't just add a name. You can't become a Bhutto overnight." According...
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Chennai Online
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