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Bhutto party accuses government
Zeeshan Haider
Reuters
Saturday December 29, 2007
Benazir Bhutto's party challenged the Pakistani government's
version of the opposition leader's assassination as fresh
violence on Saturday stoked fears that January 8 elections
could be put off.
Al Qaeda-linked militants denied being behind the killing
of the 54-year-old former prime minister although the government
of nuclear-armed Pakistan, a key U.S. ally in fighting terrorism,
had said on Friday it had proof of their involvement.
Bhutto's party dismissed the government account, saying there
was no hard evidence and President Pervez Musharraf's embattled
administration was trying to cover up its failure to protect
her.
In renewed violence, three Bhutto supporters were shot dead
bringing the death toll to 42 since her assassination in a
gun and bomb attack on Thursday.
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A close aide who prepared Bhutto's body for burial dismissed
as "ludicrous" a government theory that she died
after hitting her head on a sunroof during the suicide attack.
Sherry Rehman, a spokeswoman for Bhutto's Pakistan People's
Party (PPP), said Bhutto was shot in the head. But the government
stuck to its version, saying Bhutto's party was welcome to
exhume her corpse to check.
Pakistanis remained on edge on Saturday after protesters
torched shops, lorries, welfare centers and ambulances overnight.
"There's a lot of rioting going on in my neighborhood,
Clifton. Everything has been burned up. Shops have been looted,"
Ali Khan, 36, country manager for Audi Pakistan, told Reuters
as he stood outside his Audi garage in Karachi's business
district.
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