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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7161405.stm

Last Updated: Thursday, 27 December 2007, 12:21 GMT

“Four dead in Pakistan poll rally”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At least four people have been killed ahead of an election rally that Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was preparing to attend.

Members of Mr Sharif’s PML-N party say they came under attack from supporters of the rival PML-Q party which backs President Pervez Musharraf.

The shooting took place near Pakistan’s main garrison town, Rawalpindi.

Correspondents say it is the worst election-related violence ahead of polls due on 8 January.

The elections are for national and provincial assemblies. They come weeks after President Pervez Musharraf resigned as head of the army and was sworn in for another term as president, this time as a civilian.”


1,079 posted on 12/27/2007 4:36:01 AM PST by Cindy
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About 40 injured or more...according to some breaking news release and Bhutto is dead.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1160646

“Pakistan’s Bhutto Killed by Bombing”
December 27, 2007 - 8:30am

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide bombing that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, a party aide and a military official said.”


1,080 posted on 12/27/2007 5:35:25 AM PST by Cindy
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