Friday, December 28, 2007

Troops sent in to quell riots as PPP takes to the streets


Guardian Unlimited:

Troops were sent into the streets of cities around Pakistan yesterday to quell rioting by supporters of Benazir Bhutto who blame the government for her assassination.

The explanation and government claims that al-Qaida was responsible failed to appease tens of thousands of Bhutto's supporters who gathered to see her buried in her ancestral home of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. She was laid to rest alongside her father, another former prime minister who was hanged by an earlier military regime, and her two brothers, who both died in mysterious circumstances.

Some of the mourners chanted "General, killer!" accusing the president and former army chief, Pervez Musharraf of abetting Bhutto's assassination.