Benazir Bhutto Assassinated

Violence Delays Pakistan Elections Until February

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistani elections will be delayed until Feb. 18 because of violence following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, authorities said Wednesday, ignor...

US Not Ready To Accept Pakistan's Findings On Bhutto's Death

New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


United States intelligence analysts are not convinced by the evidence offered so far by Pakistani authorities that a militant linked to Al Qaeda was r...

Pakistan Ministry Backpedals On Bhutto Cause Of Death Claims

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistan's Interior Ministry backtracked Tuesday on its statement that Benazir Bhutto died because she hit her head on a sunroof latch during a shooti...

Pakistan Says Elections To Be Delayed

AP | SADAQAT JAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistan's election commission said Tuesday that unrest following the killing of Benazir Bhutto would almost certainly force the postponement of Jan. ...

Bhutto Was To Release Report Saying Musharraf Planned To Rig Elections On Day She Was Killed

McClatchy Newspapers | Saeed Shah | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The day she was assassinated last Thursday, Benazir Bhutto had planned to reveal new evidence alleging the involvement of Pakistan's intelligence agen...

New Video Of Bhutto's Assassination Raises Questions

AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A newly released video of Benazir Bhutto's assassination and an inconclusive medical report raised new doubts Monday about the official explanation of...

Pakistan Opposition Parties Vow To Proceed With Elections

New York Times | Somini Sengupta | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Three days after the violent killing of its leader, Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's largest political party on Sunday picked her 19-year-old son to succeed...

We Are The Terrorists

Stacey Lawson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Stacey Lawson

There is a necessary reckoning, a collective grappling and grief, which accompanies the assassination of a powerful public figure like Ms. Benazir Bhu...

Bhutto's Doctors Felt Pressure To Adopt Govt Story On Her Death

New York Times | Jane Perlez | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


New details of Benazir Bhutto's final moments, including indications that her doctors felt pressured to conform to government accounts of her death, f...

Bush Has No Plan B For Pakistan

Washington Post | Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


For the Bush administration, there is no Plan B for Pakistan. The assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto dramatically altered Pakistan...

Bhutto Tried To Hire US Security Guards, Including Blackwater

Washington Times | Philip Sherwell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Benazir Bhutto was so fearful for her life that she tried to hire British and American security firms, including Blackwater, to protect her, but Pakis...

2 Suicide Bombers Die In Failed New Attack In Eastern Pakistan

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Two suspected suicide bombers died Sunday when they prematurely detonated their bomb near the residence of a senior leader of the ruling party in east...

Indian Press: Pakistan Elections Postponed

Times of India | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The election commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to postpone the January 8 polls in view of the situation in the country after the murder of form...

Pakistan Offers To Exhume Bhutto's Body

The Telegraph (U.K.) | Isambard Wilkinson and Bonnie Malkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Pakistan government today offered to exhume the body of Benazir Bhutto, as the row over the murdered opposition leader's cause of death intensifie...

Pakistan Says Turmoil From Bhutto's Death Could Delay Vote

AFP | Nasir Jaffry | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistan indicated Saturday it would delay January elections because of turmoil caused by the death of Benazir Bhutto, as a bitter dispute erupted ove...

Democrats: Redeploy Iraq Troops To Focus On Other Terrorist Threats

AP | NATASHA T. METZLER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The United States should redeploy troops from Iraq, allowing the military to focus on terrorist threats in Pakistan and Afghanistan, New York Rep. Kir...

Pakistan Rejects Foreign Help In Bhutto Probe

AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite controversy over the circumstances of her dea...

Pakistan: Bhutto Died From Skull Fracture, Not Gunshots

AP | MUNIR AHMAD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Pakistan - The Pakistani government said Friday that Benazir Bhutto Bhutto was not killed by gunshots or shrapnel as originally claimed but by a skull...

Huckabee Aide Says Candidate Has "No Foreign Policy Credentials"

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A senior aide to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee admitted Friday that the former Arkansas governor had "no foreign policy credentials"...

Clinton Calls For Probe Of Bhutto's Death

Reuters | Ellen Wulfhorst | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Democrat Hillary Clinton called on Friday for an international probe of Benazir Bhutto's killing and candidates in both parties sparred over foreign p...

Bhutto's Skull X-Ray, Bloody Vehicle

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


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Pakistani Official: Al-Qaida, Taliban Behind Assassination

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto," Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said. Interior Minis...

HarperCollins Rushing To Publish Bhutto Memoir

New York Post | Keith Kelly | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Book publisher HarperCollins, which just received the manuscript for Benazir Bhutto's upcoming book, is now moving quickly to get it on the shelves by...

Anderson Cooper Heading To Pakistan

TVNewser | Chris Ariens | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Anderson Cooper just announced he will be reporting from Pakistan tomorrow to cover the aftermath of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazi...

Newsweek's Prescient Pakistan Cover

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Far be it for Newsweek to say "I told you so," but let the record reflect that roughly two and a half months ago, it did.