A Bomb, Not a Bullet
I'm sure this will never be good enough for the Pakistan's People's Party or Ms. Bhutto's family—and damn it, if the lone gunman is still out there for conspiracy theorists to search for—but it was just a distraction from the larger issues.
Western diplomats warned that the findings in Scotland Yard's report will not help president Pervez Musharraf's government tackle the political fallout from Ms Bhutto's killing, as Pakistan heads towards parliamentary elections which are now due on February 18th. Earlier, the elections were due on January 8th but were delayed after nationwide riots occurred following Ms Bhutto's killing.
«The PPP will keep on arguing that this was a conspiracy hatched possibly with support of people in Pakistan's ruling structure» said one western diplomat. «They will keep on rejecting Scotland Yard's outcome».
The Pakistani government this week announced the arrest of two suspects in Ms Bhutto's killing. A third was arrested last month, when Pakistani officials accused Baitullah Mehsud, the pro-Taliban Islamic militant, of backing Ms Bhutto's assassins. But the official position has been thrown into fresh controversy after officials on Wednesday confirmed a ceasefire between Mr Mehsud and Pakistani government troops in the region bordering Afghanistan.
Now, excuse me while I stick a finger down my throat to purge my reaction to the "creeping convenient canonization of Benazir Bhutto." Individual Count strikes just the right chord.
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