Benazir Bhutto

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...

Bhutto's 19-Year-Old Son Named Successor

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son was chosen Sunday to succeed her as chairman of her opposition party, extending Pakistan's most famous political dyna...

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"...

Bhutto Assassination To Threaten Pakistan's Delicate Balance Of Chaos?

236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


The assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has heightened concerns that nuclear-armed Pakistan, a member of the nuclear club with nuclear w...

Stocks Close Flat After Erratic Trading Week

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Stocks finished an erratic week narrowly mixed Friday after a government report of a steep decline in new home sales stirred concerns that weakness in...

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...

Dollar Falls For Sixth Day Amid Turmoil In Pakistan

Bloomberg | Min Zeng | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The dollar fell for a sixth day against the euro as slowing economic growth and concern that turmoil in Pakistan will intensify made U.S. assets less ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Pakistan On The Brink Of Chaos After Assassination

AP | MATTHEW PENNINGTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


The assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto deals a stunning blow to liberal political forces trying to combat rising Islamic extremism in P...

A Timeline Of Benazir Bhutto's Life

Telegraph | Richard Edwards | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Jun 21, 1953: Born in Karachi 1976: After spending her childhood in Pakistan and embarking on her higher eduction at Harvard, she is elected presiden...

World Leaders Express Outrage Over Bhutto Assassination

Reuters | Matthew Tostevin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


World leaders voiced outrage at the assassination on Thursday of Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and expressed fears for the fate of the n...