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Summary of "Who Killed Bhutto": Rawalpindi

Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Many suspected the Musharraf government did not do enough to protect her and may have been involved given evidence like the rushed cleaning of the crime scene and questionable medical reports. Islamic militants were also considered possible perpetrators due to their stated motives to kill Bhutto, though the assassination occurring in a highly secure location and the denial of responsibility by some raised doubts. Both the government and militants potentially stood to benefit from Bhutto's death by eliminating a key opponent and destabilizing Pakistan.

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Summary of "Who Killed Bhutto": Rawalpindi

Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Many suspected the Musharraf government did not do enough to protect her and may have been involved given evidence like the rushed cleaning of the crime scene and questionable medical reports. Islamic militants were also considered possible perpetrators due to their stated motives to kill Bhutto, though the assassination occurring in a highly secure location and the denial of responsibility by some raised doubts. Both the government and militants potentially stood to benefit from Bhutto's death by eliminating a key opponent and destabilizing Pakistan.

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Summary of Who Killed Bhutto

In the article Who Killed Bhutto (Macleans, Jan 8


th
, 2008, P28), Adnan R.
Khan is writing that the suspicion of killing Bhutto have already pointed to Musharraf
government, and Musharraf government have faced to the credit crisis. After 60 years
Pakistan history of political assassination, Bhutto was murdered on Dec.27, 2007.
Musharraf was censured that Musharraf government didnt do his best to protect Bhutto,
and also there were many theories to suspect that Musharraf involved in this assassination.
Khan mentioned there were two important evidences to support the publics suspicion:
One was that the police cleaned up the murdered scene within hours of the attack; another
one was the medical report which wrote the bullet was shot into Bhuttos head, but other
doctors such as Dr. Vincent Royon, an emergency room doctor in Paris, pointed out that
there were no bullet on X-rays and no wound exit. Khan also wrote that there was a
evidence that Musharraf took a mission to secure Bhutto to show maybe Musharraf was
blameless, but Musharraf kept silence unlikely as before, and the public had doubted that
the attack had a relationship with Musharraf. People who were in the scene told the
different theories of killing Bhutto, but they showed a same thing without the theories:
motivated by Islamic militants. Khan mentioned that some evidences such as cleaning the
scene by the police immediately, refusing the autopsy by Bhuttos family and party, and
denying the attack by a spokesperson for Baitullah Mehsud showed the new doubtful
points to the public: If militants organized the attack, they didnt need to deny it because
they had an obvious purpose to kill her. Essentially, they should kill Bhutto in their
domains, but they chose to kill her in Rawalpindi where security would be the highest.
Both Musharraf and militancy have their own purposes and benefits after killing Bhutto:
the former could eliminate the main opponent, destroy the Pakistan People Party and
block the process of democracy; the latter was for revenge because Bhutto has ever
supported them, but she just made them to be a counterbalance to Afghanistans Northern
Alliance, and militants would put the chaos and derail into the country. If the militants
announcement was true, a new crisis would sweep entire Pakistan.

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