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Resuscitation bid failed
A REPORT sent by the Rawalpindi General Hospital to the Health Department of the Punjab provincial government said all efforts by its doctors to revive Ms Bhutto failed and she was...
EDITORIAL: A dream snuffed out
BENAZIR Bhutto is dead. She died amidst her supporters who revered her, and her father before her, and from whom she derived her strength, her legitimacy as a leader....
PPP announces forty-day mourning
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: The Pakistan People’s Party on Thursday announced that it would observe 40-day mourning for its chairperson Benazir Bhutto. It demanded an “independent and honest investigation” into the assassination....
Musharraf announces three-day mourning
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: President Pervez Musharraf has announced a three-day national mourning for Benazir Bhutto who, he said, had been murdered by “the same terrorists we are battling with”....
Attack on rally claims five lives
THE first election-related violence in Islamabad and Rawalpindi claimed five lives and left three people wounded on the busy Islamabad Highway here on Thursday afternoon....
Pall of gloom hangs over Sindh
HYDERABAD, Dec 27: At least five people were injured when the grief-stricken workers of the Pakistan People’s Party turned violent in various cities and towns of Sindh protesting the assassination of chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Thursday....
Grief, anger overtake Bhutto hometown
LARKANA, Dec 27: A pall of gloom descended over the Bhutto hometown as the news of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination reached here on Thursday evening. With people in a state of shock, there were scenes of rioting all around....
Rail, air traffic suspended
LAHORE, Dec 27: Rail and air traffic between major cities was suspended on Thursday after violence broke out in Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Peshawar....
UN slams Benazir slaying
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 27: The United Nations Security Council and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned on Thursday the killing of Benazir Bhutto and urged all Pakistanis to show restraint and maintain stability....
PML-N boycotts polls, calls for strike today
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: Pakistan Muslim League-N announced on Thursday that it had decided to boycott the general elections as a mark of protest over the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto and asked President Pervez Musharraf to resign immediately....
Bush urges Pakistanis to continue their struggle for democracy
WASHINGTON, Dec 27: US President George W. Bush, who telephoned President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday to condole former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, has urged the Pakistani nation to honour her memory by continuing their struggle for democracy....
BB’s last meeting with a foreign dignitary
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto was in a buoyant mood on Thursday when she left for Liaquat Bagh after meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai here....
‘Subcontinent lost an outstanding leader’
NEW DELHI, Dec 27: Indian leaders led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed shock and outrage at assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, saying her slaying by a...
Benazir is dead!
I first met Benazir Bhutto when she was elected prime minister in 1988, and asked to see me at her Rawalpindi office to be interviewed by her for the post of Principal Information Officer (PIO)....
Govt to call APC to discuss polls
ISLAMABAD, Dec 27: The government has decided not to re-impose emergency in the country and instead call an All Parties Conference (APC) to decide about the elections, scheduled to be held on Jan 8, sources told Dawn on Thursday....
27 killed in Kurram Agency
PARACHINAR, Dec 27: Twenty-seven people were killed and 42 others were injured in fresh clashes between rival groups in the troubled Kurram Agency on Thursday....
SBP closed for three days
KARACHI, Dec 27: The State Bank of Pakistan will remain closed for three days with effect from Friday, chief spokesman of the bank Wasimuddin told Dawn on Thursday....
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