Pakistan: The looming threat of Islamist terror By Adrian Morgan

On Tuesday, January 8, Pakistan would have held national elections. These would have chosen members of the National Assembly and also the prime minister of the nation. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on December 27 caused widespread chaos on the streets of many cities, and led to numerous conspiracy theories concerning the circumstances of Ms Bhutto's death. Initially the interim government maintained that Bhutto had died from striking her head on the lever of her vehicle's sunroof, contradicting eyewitness accounts that she had been shot. On Sunday, January 6, President Pervez Musharraf conceded that Bhutto may have been shot.

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