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Supporters take to the streets in fiery protest

By Omar Waraich in Lahore
Independent
28 December 2007

With many cities across Pakistan ablaze last night, a high-security "red" alert was declared throughout the country. All schools, commercial centres and banks were closed for three days.

The most serious incidents took place in Benazir Bhutto's native province of Sindh, in the south of the country, where shops, cars and offices were set alight. In the assassinated leader's ancestral town of Larkana, supporters came out on to the streets to mourn and to vent their anger. Hundreds paraded across the town, performing the matam, a Shia rite of self-flagellation.

In wake of assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Bush administration rushes to defense of Musharraf

By Keith Jones
WSWS
28 December 2007

Pakistan People’s Party “life chairperson” and prime ministerial candidate Benazir Bhutto was assassinated early Thursday evening, Pakistani time, while campaigning for national and provincial assembly elections scheduled for January 8.

The assassination was carried out in Rawalpindi, headquarters of the Pakistani military and ostensibly one of the country’s most secure cities.