Benazir Bhutto Assassination

UN Bhutto Assassination Probe To Begin 1.5 Years After Killing

Voice Of America | Posted 07.24.2009 | World


The United Nations secretary-general has appointed a three-person commission to investigate the circumstances of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benaz...

George Clooney Dating a Bhutto?

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 03.14.2009 | Entertainment


Shirin Sadeghi

Say it ain't so, George -- Syriana was impressive, but your international political credentials are rather outweighed by your international flings. If you really care about Fatima, you'll let her go...

Bhutto's Daughter Pays Tribute With Rap (VIDEO)

The Independent | Andrew Buncombe | Posted 02.05.2009 | World


Like any child who has lost a parent, it was only natural that Benazir Bhutto's eldest daughter would wish to express her grief for her murdered mothe...

Benazir the Martyr: an Anniversary on the Brink of War

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 01.28.2009 | World


Shirin Sadeghi

As the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination comes and goes, some people in Pakistan have quietly concluded that getting assassinated was the best thing she ever did.

Scotland Yard: Bhutto Killed By Bomb Blast

Washington Post | Candace Rondeaux | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that Paksitani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by the impact of a sui...

Bhutto Party Rejects UK Police Findings

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Benazir Bhutto's supporters disputed a Scotland Yard finding Friday that a bomb not a bullet killed the ex-prime minister,...

2 Arrested in Bhutto Assassination Plot

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A 15-year-old detained near the Afghan border has confessed to joining a team of assassins sent to kill Benazir Bhutto, of...

The Implications of the Bhutto Assassination: An Analysis

Arvin Bahl | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Arvin Bahl

The US and the rest of the world must recognize that the Pakistani military is not the solution to Pakistan's instability, but rather one of its root causes.

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...

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...

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...

New Photos And Eyewitness Accounts Contradict Govt Story

The Telegraph (U.K.) | Massoud Ansari and Julian Kossoff | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"Long live Bhutto," Benazir Bhutto shouted, waving to the crowd surging around her car. They were her last words before three gunshots rang out and sh...

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...

Photog Describes Bhutto Scene: "Shots Were Fired And She Went Down"

E&P/NYT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


The photos of Getty's John Moore are likely to stand as the most memorable and up-close from the scene of the Bhutto assassination today. He captured ...

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.

The New Dark Ages

E. A. Hanks | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


E. A. Hanks

It's bad. Everything everywhere seems bad. I can't help but feel like we're headed into another year of the New Dark Ages. War, famine, pestilence and plague, you name it, we've got it.

Timing Is Everything: New Giuliani Ad May Benefit From Bhutto

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Today Rudy Giuliani dropped a new presidential ad, in which he finally -- and unsurprisingly -- plays the 9/11 card.

Sen. Arlen Specter, In Pakistan, Tells MSNBC: I Learned Of Bhutto Death From CNN

TVNewser | Chris Ariens | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


In the NoonET hour of MSNBC's coverage of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto anchor Tamron Hall interviewed Sen. Arlen Specter, who is in Islamabad. ...