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Pakistan Tells Doubters to Exhume Body

Speculation on Bhutto death runs wild as riots threaten elections

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 29, 2007 3:55 PM CST

(Newser) – Benazir Bhutto’s political party is free to exhume her corpse to verify her ever-shifting cause of death, a Pakistani official said today. So far, the government has issued three accounts—gunshots, shrapnel, and then a fractured skull from hitting her head—which has PPP... Read full story »

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