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Benazir Bhutto, September 2004. Bhutto had opted for self-exile while her court cases for corruption remained pending in foreign and Pakistani courts. [14] After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returned to Karachi on 18 October 2007 to prepare for the 2008 national elections, allowed by a possible power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf.
In December 1971, Zulfikar assumed the presidency of Pakistan, the first democratically elected leader after 13 years of military rule. [47] In 1972, Benazir accompanied her father to the India-Pakistan Summit in Simla as a replacement for her mother, who was ill. [ 48 ]
Killed by a car bomb planted by unidentified militant Thomas Sankara: President of Burkina Faso: October 15, 1987: Ouagadougou Burkina Faso: Soldiers under the command of Gilbert Diendéré: René Moawad: President of Lebanon: November 22, 1989: Beirut Lebanon: Killed by a car bomb Ahmed Abdallah: President of the Comoros: November 26, 1989 ...
On January 25, 1993, outside of CIA Headquarters campus (now known as the George Bush Center for Intelligence) in Langley, Virginia, Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot and killed two CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight and wounded three others.
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office.In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Pakistani politicians. It includes politicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Biography portal
Speculation has grown that the U.S. used a secret Hellfire missile nicknamed the 'knife bomb' to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri.
In 1986, MQM responded to the Qasba Aligarh massacre with extreme violence and killings. 900 Pashtuns were killed by MQM militants as a "revenge" for the Qasba Aligarh massacre. [23] In October 1988, MQM activists killed 90 Sindhis in separate attacks in Karachi. [24] In the same month, at least 46 Sindhis were killed in ethnic riots.