Qualla: Assassination of Benazir Bhutto https://qualla.com/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/g/z/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Assassination of Benazir Bhutto https://qualla.com/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto Assassination of Benazir Bhutto: Introduction https://qualla.com/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto/ Photo credit Robert D. Ward, Public domain. The doctor who tried to save her was the son of the doctor who had tried to save Liaquat Ali Khan -- Pakistan's first prime minister, assassinated in the same park and rushed to the same hospital in 1951. History in Rawalpindi does not merely repeat; it returns to the same coordinates. On the evening of 27 December 2007, Benazir Bhutto stood through the sunroof of her white Toyota Land Cruiser at Liaquat National Bagh, waving to supporters after a Pakistan Peoples Party rally. Three gunshots rang out, followed by a suicide bomb that killed twenty-three people in the crowd around her. She was declared dead at Rawalpindi General Hospital at 6:16 PM local time. Bhutto was fifty-four years old, a two-time prime minister, and the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority nation. She had been back in Pakistan for barely two months.

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/g/z/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-wp/ttgz-assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Assassination of Benazir Bhutto: Eight Years in Exile, Ten Weeks at Home https://qualla.com/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto/ Photo credit Khalid Mahmood, CC BY-SA 3.0. Bhutto left Pakistan in 1999 amid pending corruption cases in Pakistani and foreign courts, settling into a long exile split between Dubai and London. She returned to Karachi on 18 October 2007, invited by the possibility of a power-sharing arrangement with President Pervez Musha...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/g/z/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-wp/ttgz-assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-eight-years-in-exile-ten-weeks-at-home.mp3 0:06 2 full Assassination of Benazir Bhutto: The Rally at Liaquat Bagh https://qualla.com/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto/ Photo credit Khalid Mahmood, CC BY-SA 3.0. Liaquat National Bagh -- the park named for Pakistan's assassinated first prime minister -- sits in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, adjacent to Islamabad. Bhutto addressed a crowd of PPP supporters there on the afternoon of 27 December, then climbed into her bulletproof vehicle ...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/g/z/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-wp/ttgz-assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-the-rally-at-liaquat-bagh.mp3 0:06 3 full Assassination of Benazir Bhutto: A Death Disputed https://qualla.com/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto/ Photo credit Khalid Mahmood, CC BY-SA 3.0. Within hours of Bhutto's death, the question of how exactly she died became a political battleground in itself. Pakistan's Interior Ministry initially claimed she was killed by a skull fracture caused when the blast threw her against her vehicle's sunroof latch -- no gunshots, no...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/g/z/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-wp/ttgz-assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-a-death-disputed.mp3 0:06 4 full Assassination of Benazir Bhutto: A Country Unravels https://qualla.com/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto/ Photo credit Khalid Mahmood, CC BY-SA 3.0. Pakistan broke. Supporters outside the hospital wept, smashed glass doors, and chanted against Musharraf. Within hours, demonstrations had spread across the country. In Sindh -- Bhutto's home province -- the violence was worst. Rioters destroyed 176 banks, thirty-four gasoline st...

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]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/t/g/z/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-wp/ttgz-assassination-of-benazir-bhutto-a-country-unravels.mp3 0:06 5 full Assassination of Benazir Bhutto: The Same Park, the Same Hospital https://qualla.com/assassination-of-benazir-bhutto/ Photo credit Khalid Mahmood, CC BY-SA 3.0. Rawalpindi is not a city that forgets its dead. Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated at Liaquat Bagh in 1951. Fifty-six years later, Benazir Bhutto was killed leaving the same park. Both were rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital. The coincidence is not merely geographic -- it speak...

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