Benazir bhutto

The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

By DevonTe22

  • Twice-deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan

  • Musharraf gives amnesty to Bhutto amidst others

  • Bhutto sends letter to Musharraf naming those plotting to kill her

    Ijaz Shah - current chief of Intelligence Bureau
    Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi - former chief minister of the Punjab region
    Arbab Ghulam - former chief minister of Sindh
    Hamid Gul - former chief of Pakistani intelligence service (ISID)

  • Bhutto returns from Exile

    200,000 supporters greet Bhutto at Karachi airport

  • 1st Assassination Attempt

    Suicide bomber near the truck Bhutto was in. 179 people dead. 600 injured. Bhutto herself shaken but unharmed.

  • Musharraf has police erect barbed wire around Bhutto compound

    Tried to prevent her from speaking at a rally protesting Musharraf's emergency rule. Rounded up thousands of her supporters

  • Bhutto placed under house arrest

    Cited concerns for her "safety" - She responded by calling for Musharraf's resignation and threatening to have her party boycott the elections scheduled for January 2008

  • Leaked Letter about Bhutto conspiring with India

    Bhutto accused of conspiring with India for political gain. Bhutto's party denounced it as forgery, citing grammatical errors.

  • Authorities detained a man carrying explosives near a rally

    Happened near the Afghan border in Peshawar. Man claimed it was celebratory dynamite. Bhutto's husband wanted to join her, but she told him to remain in Dubai.

  • Assassination

    Benazir Bhutto Assassinated as her caravan departed a political rally in Rawalpindi, just south of Islamabad

  • Plans for December 27th

    Planned to use her speech to charge that Musharraf intended to rig the elections on 8 January. Planned to meet with election observers from EU and US. She planned to give them evivdence of rigged elections. In the morning she met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to confer on the growing dangers of extremism.