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...country's other major opposition party, Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), initially said that it would boycott the election. But today party officials said the party would participate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Bhutto in Pakistan | 12/30/2007 | See Source »

Lahore is a stronghold of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and is home to plenty of Bhutto supporters as well. In a place that's so heavily anti-Musharraf, innuendo seems to feed on itself. On the city's main street, lined with policemen holding batons and wearing anti-riot gear, two teenagers out for a walk say they have also heard about a possible government connection to the attack but cannot offer any evidence to back up the claims. "My mother told me not to talk about this topic on my mobile or telephone because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bhutto Conspiracy Theories Fill the Air | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...killed Benazir Bhutto belonged to a domestic terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda called Lashkar-i-Jhangvi. The group is responsible for dozens of attacks inside Pakistan over the past decade including sectarian killings of Shi'ites and Christians, a failed 1999 assassination attempt against then-Prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and involvement in the kidnapping and beheading of the Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl. An FBI and Department of Homeland Security bulletin sent out Thursday cited unsubstantiated reports that Lashkar-i-Jhangvi had claimed responsibility for Bhutto's assassination. An FBI official said that the bulletin was based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bhutto's Jihadist Enemies | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...Afghan wars, with no more war to fight, launched a bloody sectarian campaign against Pakistani Shi'ites. In 1996, amid these attacks, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi was formed by a disgruntled member of Sipah-e-Sahaba who named his group after the martyred founder of Sipah-e-Sahaba, Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. (Lashkar is an Urdu word meaning Army, hence "The Army of Jhangvi.") In January 1998, four Lashkar-i-Jhangvi gunmen fired AK-47 machine guns on a Shi'ite wake in Mominpura cemetery near Lahore, killing 24 mourners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bhutto's Jihadist Enemies | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...dark, darkest, gloomiest day in the history of this country. Something unthinkable has happened. Something inconceivable, unthinkable has happened." Pakistan Opposition Leader NAWAZ SHARIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Reaction to Bhutto's Death | 12/27/2007 | See Source »

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