Contemporary · South Asia · Politics

2007

Benazir Bhutto assassinated

December 27, 2007

Pakistan's twice-elected former prime minister was leaving a campaign rally in Rawalpindi when a young man fired at her motorcade and detonated his suicide vest. She died on the way to the hospital. The Bhutto dynasty, the army, and the Islamists all blamed each other, and Pakistan slipped further from itself.

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Before and after in South Asia

Before: October 8, 2005: Kashmir earthquake
After: November 26, 2008: Mumbai attacks

Before and after in Politics

Before: February 14, 2005: Beirut bomb kills Hariri
After: September 15, 2008: Lehman Brothers collapses

Era

Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Assassination of Benazir Bhutto