Finally former Pakistan Primier Benazir Bhutto has been assasinated. After surviving several assassination attempts in the past, PPP and Pakistan opposition leader and former PM Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday in a suicide attack at a campaign rally that also killed at least 20 others.
The attacker struck just minutes after Bhutto addressed thousands of supporters in Rawalpindi. Benazir Bhutto was not so lucky on Thursday as she was killed by two gunmen who opened fire at her right after she finished addressing a rally at Liaquatbagh.
Bhutto got off the stage after addressing the rally and started moving towards her car. Her vehicle moved a certain distance and she was surrounded by party supporters. She came out of the car and just then two attackers with AK 47s pumped her with bullets, one in the neck and two in the head. After shooting, a third attacker blew himself up near Benazir's car.
Benazir was declared dead at 6.16 pm local time at a Rawalpindi hospital, 40 minutes after she was taken in. The attack also killed more than 20 people and left several others injured.
Nawaz Sharif described Benazir Bhutto's assassination as the most tragic incident in the history of Pakistan.
''I myself feel threatened,'' says Sharif, whose party temporarily suspended the electioneering in the wake of the assassination.
Bhutto is survived by her husband Asif Ali Zardari and three children. Before she returned to Pakistan in October, Benazir Bhutto told that she was not afraid of the threats.
In October some 130 people were killed in an attack on Bhutto's cavalcade when she returned to the country.
Benazir was the first female PM in the Muslim world. Three days of national mourning has been declared. The national flag will be flown at half mast.
Benazir is likely to be buried on Friday in Larkana near her father's grave. National and provincial assembly elections in Pakistan are due on January 8.
It was one of the worst incidents of violence in a year of deteriorating security in Pakistan.
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