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Pakistan Mourns Bhutto on Anniversary of Slaying

Government calls for UN to probe former PM's assasssination

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 27, 2008 2:29 AM CST
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(Newser) – Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have traveled to Benazir Bhutto's hometowm to mark the first anniversary of her assassination, Reuters reports. The former prime minister was killed in a gun and bomb attack at an election rally a year ago today. Many questions still surround the killing and the country's new government has called for the UN to investigate.

Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party won an election after the killing and now heads a coalition government. Her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, is now president. In a statement marking the anniversary, he said the assassination was an attack on the entire nation. "The tyrants and the killers have killed her but they shall never be able to kill her ideas that drove and inspired a generation to lofty aims," he said.

Supporters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto pray at her grave, ahead of the first anniversary of her death in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh near Larkana, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.
Supporters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto pray at her grave, ahead of the first anniversary of her death in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh near Larkana, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.   (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Supporters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto pray at her grave, ahead of the first anniversary of her death in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh near Larkana, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.
Supporters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto pray at her grave, ahead of the first anniversary of her death in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh near Larkana, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.   (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
Vendors sell posters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, left, next to her ancestral graveyard ahead of the first anniversary of her death, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.
Vendors sell posters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, left, next to her ancestral graveyard ahead of the first anniversary of her death, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.   (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
A woman puts a candle in front of a portrait of Benazir Bhutto at a prayer ceremony marking the first anniversary of Bhuto's death, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008 in Peshawar, Pakistan.
A woman puts a candle in front of a portrait of Benazir Bhutto at a prayer ceremony marking the first anniversary of Bhuto's death, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008 in Peshawar, Pakistan.   (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
Supporters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto pray at the shrine of Saint Barri Imam, to mark the first anniversary of Bhutto's death in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.
Supporters of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto pray at the shrine of Saint Barri Imam, to mark the first anniversary of Bhutto's death in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 26, 2008.   (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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