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September 2008
- Pakistani Democracy Is Achievable: Bhutto Widower
  
  Washington Post | Sep 4, 08 8:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pakistan, still reeling from Benazir Bhutto's assassination and Pervez Musharraf's resignation, can get a grip on terrorists and win the fight against dictatorship, insists Bhutto’s widower in a Washington Post op-ed outlining the stakes in Saturday's election. Asif Ali Zardari, who’s running for president, vows to continue his wife’s fight against terror, which he called a “battle for Pakistan’s soul.” More »
August 2008
- Democracy to Avenge Bhutto's Death: Zardari
  
  Newsweek | Aug 24, 08 4:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Democracy will avenge Benazir Bhutto's death and diminish rising extremism in Pakistan, Bhutto's widower tells Newsweek . Asif Ali Zardari, now a presidential nominee, says he cut no deal with departing president Pervez Musharraf and hopes he will stay to witness rule by the people. “Personally I would like him to be around and see us flourish,” he said. “I think that would be the revenge of Benazir Bhutto.” More »
July 2008
- Bhutto Investigation Going Nowhere
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jul 4, 08 1:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - There doesn’t seem to be much urgency behind the hunt for Benazir Bhutto’s killers, the Los Angeles Times reports, though her party has come to power in Pakistan since the Dec. 27 assassination. The government still hasn’t commissioned an independent investigation, and police have all but abandoned the case. “It looks as if it’s a forgotten chapter,” one retired general said More »
April 2008
- Pakistan Near Ceasefire Deal With Militants
  
  Reuters | Apr 24, 08 2:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pakistan’s new government is near a ceasefire deal with militants, the New York Times reports, as a top rebel commander has ordered his forces to stop attacks. Baitullah Mehsud, thought to have organized the December assassination of Benazir Bhutto, ordered a ban on “provocative activities for the sake of peace," in leaflets distributed in the Afghan border region, Reuters notes. More »
March 2008
- Security Boss Suspected by Bhutto Will Quit
  
  Reuters | Mar 19, 08 12:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Pakistani intelligence chief whom slain leader Benazir Bhuttto suspected to be plotting against her is leaving his post with Bhutto's party poised to take power Monday, Reuters reports. Bhutto identified Ijaz Shah as one of four people who should be investigated if she were to be killed; many Pakistanis suspect the country's spy agencies were behind Bhutto's Dec. 27 assassination. More »
- Pakistan's New Parliament Sworn In
  
  Reuters | Mar 17, 08 11:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pakistan's newly anti-Musharraf National Assembly was sworn in today, a month after politicians hostile to the president swept the general election. The new coalition has promised to reinstate the judges that the president booted when he declared a state of emergency in November. These judges would likely challenge the validity of Musharraf's reelection in October, reports Reuters. More »
- Pakistani Parties Spurn Musharraf, Forge Coalition
  
  Reuters | Mar 9, 08 5:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pakistani opposition parties formed a coalition today that snubbed President Pervez Musharraf. The alliance of ex-PM Nawaz Sharif and the late Benazir Bhutto's party will also reinstate the judges deposed by Musharraf last year. Having opposed Musharraf's reelection bid, the judges are also likely to challenge his presidency in court, Reuters reports. More »
- Bhutto's Party Delays PM Decision
  
  Bloomberg | Mar 6, 08 10:31 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Benazir Bhutto's party deferred its choice for PM candidate today, adding greater uncertainty to Pakistan's volatile political landscape, Bloomberg reports. Makhdoom Amin Fahim, the Pakistan People's Party's No. 2 and a longtime Bhutto loyalist, had been expected to take the top job today. But a meeting of the party's newly elected MPs split up without even discussing whom they would nominate. More »
- Pakistan Charges 5 in Bhutto Murder
  
  Associated Press | Mar 1, 08 6:32 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Police in Pakistan have filed charges against five men, including the country’s top Taliban commander, accusing them of planning the December assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the AP reports. President Pervez Musharaff had named the Taliban leader (and suspected al-Qaeda operative), Baitullah Mehsud, days after the attack, but today’s formal accusation led a judge to issue warrants for his and his co-conspirators’ arrest. More »
February 2008
- Musharraf Pushes Swiss to Prosecute Foe
  
  Guardian (UK) | Feb 21, 08 10:37 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - As the battle to control Pakistan heats up, President Pervez Musharraf's lawyers have asked the Swiss government to prosecute Asif Ali Zardari over decade-old corruption charges. Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto and leader of the victorious Pakistan People's Party, is charged with hiding $55 million in kickbacks in a Swiss bank account. Bhutto herself faced similar charges in Switzerland before her assassination. More »
- New Pakistan Leaders to Seek Talks With Militants
  
  New York Times | Feb 20, 08 3:28 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The victors in the Pakistan elections favor negotiations with al-Qaeda and the Taliban over military confrontation, reports the New York Times . “We will have a dialogue with those who are up in the mountains,” said Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. “We want to take all those along who are working against Pakistan.” More »
- Bhutto Widower Warns of Pakistan Election Backlash
  
  Times (UK) | Feb 17, 08 8:52 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Pakistani government's suspected plans to disrupt tomorrow's elections will trigger widespread violence and the possible collapse of the nation, warned the widower of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto. "People are absolutely on the warpath" and will take to the streets if the election is rigged, Asif Ali Zardari told the Times of London. More »
- Two Admit Helping Bhutto Assassin
  
  CNN | Feb 13, 08 3:08 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Two men confessed today to helping the man who killed Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, providing a house, gun, and explosive jacket to the suicide bomber at the center of the Dec. 27 attack. The suspects were arrested last Thursday in Rawalpindi, reports CNN. Investigators say that they are making progress toward determining who was behind the killing. More »
- Bhutto's Party Holds Big Lead in Survey
  
  Press Association | Feb 11, 08 10:16 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People’s Party holds a solid lead going into next week’s elections, according to a poll commissioned by a US organization associated with members of the 9/11 commission. Some 37% of Pakistanis surveyed said they would support the secular PPP, to 12% for Pervez Musharraf’s Muslim party. The party of Nawaz Sharif, the other ex-PM active in the opposition, came in second with 25%. More »
- UK Probe: Blast Killed Bhutto
  
  Guardian (UK) | Feb 8, 08 6:18 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Scotland Yard detectives investigating the assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have concluded that the cause of death was not a bullet, but the massive head injury she sustained when she was thrown by the suicide bomb blast. The findings mesh with the Pakistan government's version of the killing and were immediately rejected by skeptical Bhutto supporters, who renewed calls for a UN investigation, reports the Guardian. More »
- Pakistan Busts 2 More in Bhutto Hit
  
  AFP | Feb 7, 08 6:15 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Pakistani authorities have charged two alleged terrorists with participating in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, reports AFP. The two men are from Rawalpindi, where the former PM was killed in December. "Their tentacles are from the tribal region and Baitullah Mehsud," said a senior official, referring to the militant from Pakistan's northwest. Investigators last month arrested a teenager who said he was a back-up bomber for a squad sent to kill Bhutto. More »
- In Will, Bhutto Taps Husband as Successor
  
  Reuters | Feb 5, 08 1:20 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Benazir Bhutto's political will, published today, calls for her husband to take control of her party, Reuters reports. "I would like my husband Asif Ali Zardari to lead you in this interim period until you and he decide what is best," says the document. He chose to release Bhutto’s will publicly to address concerns that his leadership is illegitimate. More »
- Bomb Kills Pakistan Medic Staff
  
  BBC | Feb 4, 08 8:42 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - At least six people died this morning when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike slammed into a military bus in a ball of fire and smoke in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi. At least 20 were injured in the attack, which occurred in a crowded market area during rush hour, BBC reports. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities have blamed Taliban militants based near the Afghan border. More »
- Bhutto Warned of Her Murder by Osama's Son
  
  Times (UK) | Feb 3, 08 8:23 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was told that four suicide bomb squads had been sent to kill her—and names Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama, as the leader of one, the slain leader says in an eerie, posthumously published autobiography. Bhutto's claim appears to bolster intelligence reports that Hamza, 16, is being groomed as a future al-Qaeda head, reports the Times of London. More »
January 2008
- New Leader Has Pakistan's Taliban on Rise
  
  Time | Jan 25, 08 6:40 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Pakistan’s increasingly organized Islamist insurgency has a powerful new leader in Baitullah Mehsud, the man accused of masterminding the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. A Time profile reveals Mehsud to be formidably charismatic individual possessing a “laser-like focus” to rival even that of mentor Mullah Omar, the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban movement. More »