Dec 27th, 2007 · Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, daughter of an executed president and prime minister, was killed in a gun attack and suicide bombing Thursday in Rawalpindi. The 54-year-old was a fixture in Pakistani politics and was the Muslim world's first female prime minister.
Dec 27th, 2007 · Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at a political rally in Rawalpindi on Thursday, two months after her return to Pakistan. We hear from Bhutto's media consultant Farah Ispahani, who was at the hospital in Rawalpindi when news of her death was released.
Dec 27th, 2007 · Washington Post Islamabad Bureau chief Griff Witte recounts Benazir Bhutto's assassination and describes the scene at the hospital where her body was taken after the deadly rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Thursday. Witte talks with Melissa Block.
Dec 27th, 2007 · Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed after being shot in the neck and chest as she was leaving a rally in Rawalpindi. Rashed Rehman, the executive editor of the Post newspaper in Lahore, recalls meeting Bhutto when she was campaigning in Lahore.
Dec 27th, 2007 · Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announces three days of mourning for Benazir Bhutto, his longtime adversary who was killed at a rally in Rawalpindi. In a nationally televised speech, he says, "This cruelty is the work of those terrorists with whom we are fighting."
Dec 27th, 2007 · The assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister, sets off protests across the country and throws into turmoil the country's upcoming parliamentary elections Jan. 8. She was killed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan after leaving a campaign rally.
Dec 27th, 2007 · Peter Galbraith, former U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, was also a personal friend of Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in Rawalpindi in suicide bomb attack. Galbraith expresses sentiments over Bhutto's death and reflects on his longtime friendship with her. The two were school mates.
Nov 1st, 2007 · The bombing near an air force base comes just two days after a suicide attacker blew himself up at a police checkpoint near the army office of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi, a garrison city just south of the capital, killing seven.