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Benazir Bhutto killed (Update: Last moments in pics)

By: Santosh :+: Under: Politics
On: ⋅ December 27, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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Pakistani politician, Benazir Bhutto, has been reportedly killed in a suicide bombing outside a political rally. [CNN reports]

Bhutto’s life in pics [link]
img: via BBC

Bhutto’s family is a very powerful political dynasty in Pakistan, not unlike India’s Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and both families have had members met violent ends.

Bhutto’s father was executed by Zia Ul-Haq and both her brothers have also died violent deaths. [BBC]

The determination and stubbornness for which Ms Bhutto was renowned was first seen after her father was imprisoned and charged with murder by Gen Zia ul-Haq in 1977, following a military coup. Two years later he was executed. Ms Bhutto was imprisoned just before her father’s death and spent most of her five-year jail term in solitary confinement. She described the conditions as extremely hard

Her brother, Murtaza - who was once expected to play the role of party leader - fled to the then-communist Afghanistan after his father’s fall.

From there, and various Middle Eastern capitals, he mounted a campaign against Pakistan’s military government with a militant group called al-Zulfikar.

He won elections from exile in 1993 and became a provincial legislator, returning home soon afterwards, only to be shot dead under mysterious circumstances in 1996.

Benazir’s other brother, Shahnawaz - also politically active but in less violent ways than Murtaza - was found dead in his French Riviera apartment in 1985.

Update: BBC has a photo montage of Bhutto’s last moments including before and after the explosions. Warning: Images might be too graphic for some.

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