Benazir Bhutto's widower said his party must try to convince Pakistanis that the fight against Islamic militancy is their own war — not just America's.
An Islamic militant who is accused of helping carry out the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto wanted to avenge the death of a friend in a military attack last year, a senior police officer said Wednesday.
An autobiography completed by Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto just days before she was assassinated was published Tuesday ahead of crucial parliamentary elections.
Benazir Bhutto's supporters disputed a Scotland Yard finding Friday that a bomb not a bullet killed the ex-prime minister, and her party renewed its call for a full-scale international investigation into her death.
Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died as result of a bomb blast not gunshot in a Dec. 27 suicide attack, supporting the Pakistani government's version of how she was killed, a summary of their report released Friday said.
In an autobiography being published after her assassination, Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she was warned that four suicide bomber squads would try to kill her, one led by Osama bin Laden's 16-year-old son.
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 death.
Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London hotel, took his place behind a bank of microphones and looked up. Cameras flashed. He barely blinked.
A memoir and policy book by former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, finished only a week before her assassination, will be published Feb. 12 by HarperCollins.
An interview with Benazir Bhutto before the former Pakistani prime minister was assassinated was important enough to keep on the cover of Parade magazine, the magazine's publisher said Sunday — even though the publication had already gone to print when Bhutto was killed.
As the House of Bhutto copes with its latest violent death, hope is growing that Benazir Bhutto's killing could help mend old strains in Pakistan's virtual royal family as it seeks to extend its political dynasty and lead the country away from military rule.
Aides to Benazir Bhutto charge that lax security allowed an assassin to approach within a few yards of her. But authorities insist it was her decision to open a hatch in her bombproof vehicle and chat with supporters that left her vulnerable.
A newly released video of Benazir Bhutto's assassination and an inconclusive medical report raised new doubts Monday about the official explanation of her death and were likely to intensify calls for an independent, international investigation.
Even at age 16, Benazir Bhutto was unafraid to express herself, a lesson one college classmate learned when she invited Bhutto home for Thanksgiving during their freshman year.
Many among the mourners chanted for justice and blamed the government for their heroine's death. Others jostled to get a last glimpse of the flag-draped coffin. Some simply wept and hugged each other.
It was a story CNN's Wolf Blitzer hoped he'd never have to report — an e-mail sent to him through an intermediary by Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto complaining about her security. Conditions of use: only if she were killed.
Swiss authorities have closed an investigation into the late Benazir Bhutto for alleged money laundering but a parallel probe into her husband's activities continues, her lawyer said Friday.
The world denounced the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, paying tribute Friday to a brave, if flawed, champion of democracy. International leaders appealed for calm and held their breath to see whether violence triggered by the killing would gather momentum or fizzle out.
Benazir Bhutto was the target of threats from virtually all of the militant groups who make Pakistan their home — from al-Qaida to homegrown terrorists to tribal insurgents on the Afghan border.
Mangled bodies lay in a pool of blood and pieces of clothing and shoes were scattered on the road.
From Moscow to Washington to New Delhi and points in between, dismay and condemnation poured forth Thursday over the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, along with concern for the stability of the volatile region. World leaders lauded her bravery and commitment to democratic reform.
Benazir Bhutto was many things — zealous guardian of her dead father's legacy, aristocratic populist, accused rogue, even one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people. And in the end, she was a victim of roiling passions in the nation she sought to lead for a third time.
Quotations from Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi.
Bringing her election campaign to her home province, Benazir Bhutto vowed that neither bullets nor bombs could keep her away from the Pakistani people.
Lately I've been trying to keep my general political stances to a verbal-only kind of communication. Particularly since, well, at the moment a lot of it is in flux.
Bhutto treats the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as a personal affront, one that "twisted the values of a great and noble religion and potentially set the hopes and dreams of a better life for Muslims back a generation." Muslims, she says, "became [al Qaeda's] victims t …
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- -- Two suspects arrested last week confessed to a Pakistani judge Wednesday that they helped arm the suicide bomber blamed for assassinating Benazir Bhutto, an Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN.
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"Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in a suicide attack last year, had been warned that four suicide squads were targeting her, including one led by Osama bin Laden's 16-year-old son."
Students and faculty at an Ivy league campus reminesce on Bhutto's legacy
The Economist have recently dedicated cover page stories to Pakistan with a bold title "The Most Dangerous Nation in the World – It's Pakistan." Portraying a melodramatic picture of a hand grenade in the colours of Pakistan's national flag, the world's possibly most reli …
For more than a decade, Pakistan's powerful and secretive intelligence service has fueled a treacherous dynamic in South Asia by supporting Islamic militants in Afghanistan and Kashmir.
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is experiencing extremely low approval rates after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, whose party is spreading condemnation of the new president.
Shah, a madrasa student from Karachi, told intelligence officials he had trained as a suicide bomber in the lawless South Waziristan tribal area and was part of a five-man squad assigned to kill Bhutto.
A 15-year-old detained near the Afghan border has confessed to joining a team of assassins sent to kill Benazir Bhutto, officials said Saturday, announcing the first arrests in the attack that killed the opposition leader....
The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that the assassins who last month killed former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto were directed by Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani militant leader, and that some of them had ties to Al Qaeda.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA has concluded that a Pakistani tribal leader's network was behind the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, according to a U.S. intelligence official.
The CIA has added its support to the view that a Pakistani militant, Baitullah Mehsud, and al-Qaeda organised Benazir Bhutto's killing.
In the aftermath of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto two weeks ago, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, worried aloud that Pakistan's nuclear weapons might soon fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.
Washington itself bears a significant part of the blame. The Taliban were never really defeated after the fall of Kabul. They simply went into hiding and regrouped, and yet the American Army declared victory and left.
This is Orson Scott Card's (prolific author of Ender's Game, etc.) take on the current candidates as judged by their responses to Bhutto's assasination.
BRITISH officials have revealed that evidence amassed by Scotland Yard detectives points towards Al-Qaeda militants being responsible for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Will there be any let up in the war against terrorism in Pakistan? What will be the consequences of Benazir Bhutto's assassination on India? When any Pakistani leader is out of power, he or she makes pro-peace noises vis-à-vis India.
''T IS the most expensive - and talked about - property development in Pakistan, but few can get near it.
Musharraf said Bhutto's body should be exhumed to determine once and for all whether she was killed by a bullet. "Yes, exhume it. A hundred percent. I would like it to be exhumed," he told Newsweek from Rawalpindi.
When Fatima Bhutto heard that her estranged aunt had been assassinated she put aside decades of family feuding to mourn with her relatives at the ancestral home in Pakistan.
Interesting take on the unfolding reasons why Benazir Bhutto was assasinated and who may be responsible
Benazir was to give 'proof' of vote rigging, says PPP senator * Zardari says report may have been a motive for killing Benazir