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LRB Article PDF: Questions Concerning the Murder of Benazir Bhutto (<i>LRB</i> volume 34 number 23, 6 December 2012) 

LRB Article PDF: Questions Concerning the Murder of Benazir Bhutto (LRB volume 34 number 23, 6 December 2012)

Owen Bennett-Jones

In her posthumously published book, Reconciliation, Benazir Bhutto named a man whom she believed had tried to procure bombs for an unsuccessful attempt on her life in Karachi in October 2007:

I was informed of a meeting that had taken place in Lahore where the bomb blasts were planned … a bomb maker was needed for the bombs. Enter Qari Saifullah Akhtar, a wanted terrorist who had tried to overthrow my second government. He had been extradited by the United Arab Emirates and was languishing in the Karachi central jail … The officials in Lahore had turned to Akhtar for help. His liaison with elements in the government was a radical who was asked to make the bombs and he himself asked for a fatwa making it legitimate to oblige. He got one.

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