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The assassination of Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بھُٹو کا قتل) took place on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan and then-leader of the opposition party Pakistan People's Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for January 2008.
Bhutto was murdered on 27 December 2007 by a 15-year-old suicide bomber called Bilal. She had just finished an election rally in Rawalpindi when he approached her convoy, shot at her and...
Aug 6, 2010 · 2007. Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto assassinated. On December 27, 2007, Benazir Bhutto, a former Pakistani prime minister and the first democratically elected female leader of a...
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Sep 12, 2024 · Benazir Bhutto, prime minister of Pakistan (1988–90 and 1993–96) and the first woman leader of a Muslim nation in modern history. She became the head of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) after the 1979 execution of her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (leader of Pakistan, 1971–77). She was assassinated in 2007.
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Dec 28, 2007 · RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday after addressing a large gathering of her supporters. The bomb explodes near Bhutto's...
Dec 28, 2007 · RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday after addressing a large gathering of her supporters. The bomb explodes near Bhutto's...
Feb 5, 2021 · At around 1 a.m. on 27 December 2007 Benazir Bhutto was told someone would try to kill her that day. The warning came from no lesser a source than the director general of Pakistan’s main intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).