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Benazir Bhutto vowed today to push on with her political comeback despite a devastating suicide bomb attack that killed more than 130 people at her homecoming procession last night and injured several hundred others.
The former premier gave details of the attack at a press conference in Karachi today and said that she had already given the names of three people she believed to be responsible to President Pervez Musharraf.
Ms Bhutto said that two men had carried out the attack and her security guards had found a third man armed with a pistol and a fourth with a suicide vest.
Although she was not blaming Mr Musharraf's government "at this stage", Ms Bhutto demanded an inquiry into why the street lights had been switched off on the road along which her motorcade was travelling, obscuring the attackers as they approached her truck through the huge crowds.
Hundreds of thousands of people had packed the streets of the city to welcome her home after years of self-imposed exile.
Wearing a white headscarf and traditional tunic and trousers as well as a black armband, the 54-year-old opposition leader said, however, that the attacks would not deter her from leading the Pakistan People's Party in parliamentary elections due in January.
"We are prepared to risk our lives. We’re prepared to risk our liberty. But we’re not prepared to surrender this great nation to militants," she said. "The attack was on what I represent. The attack was on democracy and very unity and integrity of Pakistan."
The blast was thought to be Pakistan's most deadly bombing and left Karachi, a port city of 14 million people, in stunned silence.
Schools and colleges were ordered to remain closed and the city's normally packed six-lane highways were all but deserted. Ms Bhutto’s plans to make her first big public speech early today at the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, were scrapped.
Police said today that they had found the severed head of the bomber, a young man who had been carrying some 20kg of explosives, and were trying to identify him. The Interior Ministry said that the first blast had been caused by a hand grenade - although there were conflicting accounts.
In an interview with Paris Match magazine only a few hours after the bombing, Ms Bhutto said that her entourage had been tipped off about a potential suicide attack about half an hour before it happened. She said that the police had sent in reinforcements to help protect her convoy - many of whom died in the attack.
Nevertheless, she accused high-ranking members of Pakistan's intelligence services of being behind the attack, arguing that Islamic militants could not mount such a sophisticated attack "from a mountain cave".
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My sincere condolonces to Benazir Bhutto's family.
Edwin Sia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
My deepest condolences to Benazir Bhutto' s Family and to the People Party. I hope the tribute poem below will express not only my feelings but of some of the readers as well.
Benazir Bhutto
Thousands headlines
On BBC, ITV, CNN
Or on any world network
In any language
will not bring her back.
Khadim Hussain, Middlesbrough, England, UK
My deepest condolences to Benazir Bhutto' s Family and to the Pakistany People,we have lost a dear person and a promissing politician!
It is with great grief that I have experienced the sad news,which affects the whole world
Yours sincerely
Claes Nygaard
Denmark
claes nygaard, marstal, denmark
I am having my birthday today while this woman had been killed... For why? I am not trying to find causes and answers, it is not my task. Those, who have killed her, must face what they have done and live with the aftermath of their act. What they did was causeless and dumb, out of blindness and heartless fury... When all settles, they will all see what they have done...
All my heart, my feelings and my sorrow is with her and with her family. God bless her and all of hers.
Agnes
Agnes, Budapest, Hungary
I came across this blog http://benazir-bhutto-assassinated.blogspot.com/ is it true ??
pls tell
Rizwan, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
For the last eight years the people of Pakistan have been depoliticised to the extent that now they have lost every hope of democracy and fair play. The military has always kept the masses from demanding their rights through democracy, Our military has done this on many pretexts. As there were no signs of political activity we hoped that BB homecoming would stir the water; and it did to an unexpected height. This shook the corridors of the military janta that have been at loggerheads with PPP since the judicial murder of its founder, Though BB came home after having had a deal with the military regime yet the military did not bear with such a public stir by a leader whom they have been tried to wipe from the political scenario of the country. The historic welcome annoyed them; and they saw their financial interest at stake. Thus they sabotaged the mass movement through their philosophy of fear. BB's coming is the start of political activism.
Zubair Torwali, Bahrain, Swat., Pakistan.
Ignoring the very real threat against her, that tragically turned out to be true, Ms Bhutto displays a flagrant disregard for the safety of the public around her. One can only wonder at the scale of the purported corruption from which she has sought to evade prosecution given that she was seemingly impervious to the physical threats against her life. Methinks the scale of the corruption must be closer to the billions than the millions...
Peter, London,
Whilst I wholeheartedly agree that Pakistan is in desperate need of a stable and progressive Government installed through democracy, I hardly believe that Ms Bhutto is the answer. It is cowardice of her to only to return to Pakistan on the grounds that corruption charges are dropped. Let her protest those allegations in a court of law and justify the tens of millions sitting in swiss bank accounts before she seeks to amend the constitution to be re-elected.
Jam, London, UK
Yes I agree with the statement of Ms Bhutto because some elements don,t want that Ms Bhutto come to Pakistan and not participate in the next election, it is also no doubt that these elements who attacked Ms Bhutto last night have a contact to Al-Quaeda and Taleban because they do not respect a woman in the Society and I think that these element are not included in Huminity because if some one has no love for Huminity in his heart so we can,t say him a human or Muslim or any other etc. In the end I think that the culprets should be arrested as soon as possible and punished them also as soon as possible without any inquiry.So it is all the duty of Govt. of Pakistan, Electronic Media and the Agencies
Rashid, Gujranwala, Pakistan