RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.
"At 6:16 p.m. she expired," said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack.
“She has been martyred,” added party official Rehman Malik. Bhutto was 54.
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“She has been martyred,” added party official Rehman Malik. Bhutto was 54.
she was assassinated NOT martyred...baki wo log jo bhi samajhtay rahain
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Nusrat bhutto is not well...her memory has bin affected since a long time now after being widowed n two young deaths of his sons i thnk shez nt even aware of bbz death
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it wus really sad news 4 Pakistani Nation Jo kuch howa bohat bur howa nahe hona chahiye tha Indeed a sad sad moment for Pakistan We hate her or we love her...by the end of the day she was a muslim and she was a Pakistani...and even if we overlook that, she was a human so this saddens me. Pakistan is moving towards a civil war, May Allah help us all.
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan's interior ministry said Friday that Benazir Bhutto was killed after smashing her head on her car's sunroof while trying to duck, and that no bullet or shrapnel was found inside her.
The ministry also said it had intercepted a phone call from a top Al-Qaeda figure congratulating a militant for the attack on her Thursday, and said there was "irrefutable evidence" the group was trying to destabilise the country.
Bhutto's death after a suicide bomber blew himself up at her campaign rally has plunged this nuclear-armed Islamic nation into turmoil, but the ministry said she would have lived if only she had stayed inside her car.
"If she had not come out of the vehicle, she would have been unhurt, as all the other occupants of the vehicle did not receive any injuries," ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema said.
He said the post-mortem on the populist opposition leader, whose funeral earlier Friday was attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners, found her mortal wound came when she tried to duck after the bomber attacked.
The bomber also apparently fired three times at her but missed, Cheema said.
When she ducked, she hit the lever of the sunroof of the car that was to speed her away from a campaign rally as she was gearing up to contest parliamentary elections set for January 8.
"The lever struck near her right ear and fractured her skull," Cheema said. "There was no bullet or metal shrapnel found in the injury."
Cheema showed a brief video of the moments before the attack and the blast itself but it was unclear.
He said intelligence services had intercepted a call Friday from the man considered to be a top Al-Qaeda figure for Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, congratulating a militant after Bhutto's death.
He said there was "irrefutable evidence that Al-Qaeda, its networks and cohorts are trying to destabilise Pakistan".
"We have recorded his conversation in which he is congratulating a militant for the attack," Cheema said, adding that Mehsud was also behind the suicide attack on Bhutto's homecoming rally in October that killed 139 people.
"He is responsible for most of the attacks that have taken place in the country," the spokesman said, calling for national unity "to eliminate the proponents of death and destruction who are trying to destabilise Pakistan."
Pakistani authorities say Mehsud is based in the troubled tribal region of South Waziristan, where troops have been battling Islamist rebels since the fall of the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan in 2001.
Mehsud had until recently been described by officials as the top pro-Taliban militant commander in the region but is increasingly said to have links to bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group.
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Mehsud Ki hit list pe sirf Mush nhi hai??pervaiz Elahi Sujahat hussain bi nhi amazing Pakistan balkay puri duniya mein pata bi hilta hai tu Al-qaida ki sazish k toor pe wah je wah
BB sirf Muslaman aur aik Pakistani?wahan jo 28-30 log aur faut huay hain wo jan-bahaq huay hain wo shaheed nhi,unk naam tak batana pasand nhi kya gya ye hain Pakistani qaum Politicians ki janain bohat qeemti hain lekin Pak k aap aadmi ki nhi, HUM be-his,ehsan-faramosh,jazbati,bewaquuf qaum hain jo kisi bi Politician k marne ko sahadt ka nam de dete hain aur baqi jo log(30) faut huay unka koi ziker hi nhi