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Pakistan People's Party stories: 64 news summaries

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Police Stopped Bhutto Autopsy: Hospital Rep

Top cop says
ex-PM's husband
nixed post-mortem

Dec 31, 07 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - The Rawalpindi police chief prevented doctors from performing an autopsy on Benazir Bhutto, according to an open letter issued today by a representative of the hospital where she died. Chief Aziz Saud invoked the investigators' “exclusive responsibility,” CNN reports, but Saud says Bhutto's husband objected. The lack of... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • Pakistan People's Party • Rawalpindi • Asif Ali Zardari • Aziz Saud

Pakistan Vote to Be Delayed at
Least 4 Weeks

Many election offices damaged in violence; PPP opposes setback

Dec 31, 07 8:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan's January 8 election will be postponed by at least 4 weeks, "if not more," because of violence in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, election officials tell AFP. The election commission recommended a delay, but won't specify a date until tomorrow. Bhutto's party opposes postponement on grounds... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan People's Party • Pakistan elections

Bhutto's Son Quietly Political at Oxford

'Well-liked' student backed mother on his
Facebook page

Dec 30, 07 7:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Bilawal Bhutto Zardari may be Benazir Bhutto's son, picked today to lead the Pakistan People's Party, but the 19-year-old is also still in school. Bilawal has been studying at Christ Church, Oxford, without security, often hiding his political identity but supporting his mother on his Facebook profile, Time reports. "... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • Oxford University • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Bhutto's Death Just Pakistan's Latest Unsolved Mystery

Political deaths many; 'truth never comes out'

Dec 30, 07 3:36 PM CST
(Newser) - Moments after Benazir Bhutto was killed—whether by gun, bomb, or hitting her head on a sunroof—came another disturbing image. Workers hosed blood from the streets, washing away potential evidence, the Washington Post reports—and ensuring yet another whodunit to Pakistan's long list of unsolved political murders. "I... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • assassination • Pakistan People's Party

UPDATED

Bhutto Husband & Son Picked
to Head Party

Election likely
to be delayed
up to 8 weeks

Dec 30, 07 8:16 AM CST
(Newser) - As violence continued to flare in Pakistan following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, officials indicated that Jan. 8 elections will likely be postponed six to eight weeks, Reuters reports. Officials from Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party, meanwhile, picked her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and 19-year-old son, Bilawal,... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • Pakistan Muslim League • Asif Ali Zardari • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Bhutto's Will Names Son Successor

Bilawal will lead party but won't be PM candidate, report says

Dec 29, 07 6:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto instructed in her will that her son succeed her as leader of her political party, Newsweek reports. Because her son, Bilawal, is only 19, the will states that her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, act as a regent to him until he is old enough to lead by himself.... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Pakistan Tells Doubters to Exhume Body

Speculation on Bhutto death runs wild as riots threaten elections

Dec 29, 07 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 leadership crying cover-up, CNN reports.... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • Baitullah Mehsud

Bhuttos Mourn; Son Eyed as Successor

19-year-old Bilawal could take up leadership of PPP

Dec 28, 07 12:44 PM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto was the Pakistan People's Party's "chairperson for life," and her assassination leaves a vacuum in the leadership of the country's largest party. One possible successor, reports the Globe and Mail, is her 19-year-old son Bilawal, who, with his family, attended his mother's burial today. Bhutto's widower,... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari • Bilawal Bhutto Zardari • Makhdoom Amin Fahim • Aitzaz Ahsan

Bhutto Is Laid to Rest

Husband calls on government to resign; hundreds of thousands mourn

Dec 28, 07 8:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto has been buried alongside her father in her family mausoleum outside the southern city of Naudero. The Times of London reports that hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets as the funeral cortege made its way through the town. Her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, and their three... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party

Mobs Throng Bhutto Procession

Slain leader will be buried alongside her father in family mausoleum

Dec 28, 07 6:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto's funeral procession made its way today through the southern town of Naudero, where thousands of mourners thronged the streets as her coffin was taken to the family mausoleum. Draped in the flag of the Pakistan People's Party, the simple wooden casket was transported through the grieving crowds as... More »

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Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party

Benazir Bhutto Killed
in Attack on Rally

Former Pakistani PM dies in surgery;
15 others killed in suicide bombing

Dec 27, 07 7:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto died in surgery today after an explosion at a rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The suicide attacker detonated a bomb as the former prime minister left the rally where thousands were gathered to hear her speak. "She has been martyred," said a spokesman for Bhutto's party. The... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • suicide bombing • Benazir Bhutto • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan People's Party • martial law • Pakistan elections

Terror Takes Center Stage
in Pakistan Vote

Bhutto, Sharif blast Musharraf for rise in extremist attacks

Dec 26, 07 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Two weeks ahead of elections, Islamic extremism has become a central issue in the intensifying three-way race for control of Pakistan's parliament, AFP reports. Benazir Bhutto yesterday took her campaign to Peshawar, the heart of the troubled northwest, and bashed Pervez Musharraf's handling of the terrorist threat. Militants have promised... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Peshawar • suicide bomber • suicide bombing • Benazir Bhutto • terrorist • Islamic extremism • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan People's Party • Afghan border

Ex-Pakistan PM Tosses Hat Into Election Ring

Musharraf welcomes rival, rejects US military action against al-Qaeda

Dec 9, 07 6:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif launched his party into next month's elections today, dropping a boycott threat after Benazir Bhutto and other hopefuls decided to run, the AP reports. “We cannot leave the field open,” a party spokesman said. Sharif's party was one of 33 in an opposition... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan People's Party • Pakistan Muslim League

Pakistan Rivals Meet Tomorrow to Mull Boycott

Bhutto campaigns as Sharif tries to persuade her to sit out

Dec 2, 07 9:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan's opposition leaders will meet tomorrow to discuss a possible alliance to topple Pervez Musharraf, the Times of London reports. Nawaz Sharif will visit Benazir Bhutto at her home, accompanied by Imran Khan and other opposition figures, in an attempt to persuade her to boycott January's parliamentary elections. Bhutto, who... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan People's Party • boycott

Bhutto Launches Her Campaign

She will meet Sharif Monday to discuss possible boycott

Dec 1, 07 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto set aside the possibility of boycotting next month's elections for the time being and launched her campaign in hostile territory today, the AP reports. She traveled to northwest Pakistan, a stronghold of hardline Islamic factions that oppose female political involvement. Bhutto plans to meet fellow opposition leader Nawaz... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Nawaz Sharif • Pakistan People's Party

Bhutto Demands Musharraf Quit

International condemnation grows against general as crackdown grows

Nov 13, 07 5:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto demanded today that Musharraf resign as president and insisted she will never serve as prime minister under him. She also said that her party will likely boycott elections in January, the AP reports. Bhutto spoke as police again barricaded her house, ringing it with barbed wire and dump... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • state of emergency • Pakistan People's Party

Bhutto Restraint Order Lifted

Ex-PM's supporters rally, meet police, tear gas

Nov 9, 07 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Pakistan lifted the restraint order on Benazir Bhutto's house today hours after police prevented the ex-PM from leading a rally against Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule, the Guardian reports. Authorities immobilized her as part of a general ban on political assembly but said they were also acting for Bhutto's... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • emergency rule

Bhutto Fails to Break Barricade

Police block her from driving out to lead rally

Nov 9, 07 8:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto tried unsuccessfully to break through the police blockade outside her Islamabad home today to lead a rally in a nearby city, the AP reports. "We are trying to pass through because we want to reach Rawalpindi," Bhutto said after trying to drive through the blockade. "... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • state of emergency • Pakistan People's Party

Bhutto Visits Ancestral Home

She makes her first trip outside Karachi under tight security

Oct 27, 07 12:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Benazir Bhutto visited her ancestral village in southern Pakistan today and prayed at the tomb of her executed father, BBC reports. The trip was Bhutto's first outside Karachi since a failed assassination attempt last week. "It's so moving for me to finally be here and to be able to... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party

Detective
Quits Bhutto Bomb Case

Ex-PM charges bias,
says he attended husband's torture

Oct 24, 07 8:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The detective probing last week's bomb attack on Bhutto quit today, after the two-time PM accused him of bias, the BBC reports. Bhutto claimed that Manzur Mughal attended her husband's torture eight years ago, and Pakistan did not deny it. “The investigation team will be formed anew,” an... More »

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Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Islamic militants • bombing • Karachi • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party

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