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Benazir Bhutto's killing condemned
By MaltaMedia News
Dec 28, 2007 - 12:40:47 PM
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The funeral of the first woman Prime Minister in an Islamic state, Benazir Bhutto was held in her home village near Larkana in Sindh province on Friday amid ongoing violence across Pakistan.
Thousands attended the funeral while politicians and their counterparts all around the world expressed their anger and regret at the assassination.
Bhutto was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi and was standing through the sunroof of a car, when a gunman shot her in the neck and chest.
Seconds later, the attacker blew himself up, killing at least twenty people.
President Pervez Musharraf appealed for calm however
BBC news said that at least eleven people are reported to have been killed in ensuing violence.
Benazir Bhutto, 54, who was Pakistan's PM from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996, had ten weeks earlier, returned to her homeland from eight years in exile.
Foreign Minister Michael Frendo condemned the killing of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and termed it as "an attack on democracy and on secular politics in Pakistan".
Meanwhile in a press release, MLP spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Leo Brincat also condemned the killing. “This barbaric killing has put Pakistan and its path to normalization in the dark”.
The MLP spokesperson said that Thursday’s killing, which occurred just two weeks away from general elections, is an echo of the suicide attack on Bhutto’s delegation a few months back which left 150 dead.
One hopes that in these difficult circumstances, a sense of composure prevails within this strategically important country, Leo Brincat concluded.
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