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Sad day for democracy in Pakistan
The UNSC is soon to meet for emergency consultations over the
situation in Pakistan following the assassination of Pakistan
Peoples' Party leader and former PM Benazir Bhutto by a suicide
bomber this afternoon.
Ms. Bhutto was shot in the neck while addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi, south of Islamabad. The suicide bomber then detonated a bomb, killing himself and some 20 bystanders. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
While feelings towards Ms. Bhutto's potential leadership and return to Pakistan this autumn may be mixed, her killing is the ultimate act of cowardice and severely undermines the country's prospects for democracy.
Elections had been scheduled for January -- but now ex-General Musharraf is left without much in the way of an opposition.
The attack follows significant progress since the house arrest of Bhutto, suspension of the judiciary and state of emergency announced by Mr. Musharraf earlier this fall, following Ms. Bhutto's return from self-imposed exile. Musharraf had stepped down as head of the military, and election campaigns were going ahead with an unusual air of normalcy.
Pakistan has been plunged once again into confusion, with elections and democracy dangling precipitously from a thread of doubt.
This link takes you to a discomforting slide show of the rally and its aftermath.
Source: BBC
Ms. Bhutto was shot in the neck while addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi, south of Islamabad. The suicide bomber then detonated a bomb, killing himself and some 20 bystanders. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
While feelings towards Ms. Bhutto's potential leadership and return to Pakistan this autumn may be mixed, her killing is the ultimate act of cowardice and severely undermines the country's prospects for democracy.
Elections had been scheduled for January -- but now ex-General Musharraf is left without much in the way of an opposition.
The attack follows significant progress since the house arrest of Bhutto, suspension of the judiciary and state of emergency announced by Mr. Musharraf earlier this fall, following Ms. Bhutto's return from self-imposed exile. Musharraf had stepped down as head of the military, and election campaigns were going ahead with an unusual air of normalcy.
Pakistan has been plunged once again into confusion, with elections and democracy dangling precipitously from a thread of doubt.
This link takes you to a discomforting slide show of the rally and its aftermath.
Source: BBC
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