The Ties That Strangle

"The administration has behaved as if there are only two choices in foreign policy – sending money or sending bombs. Our founding fathers knew a better way – to talk with our neighbors, do honest business with them, cultivate friendship, allow travel and open communication. We should neither initiate violence, nor take sides in conflicts that are none of our business."

Bhutto's Son, Husband to Succeed Her

Asif Ali Zardari, left, husband of slain former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, addresses a news conference with his son Bilawal Zardari, top, as Bilawal was nominated Chairman of Bhutto's People's party in Naudero near Larkana, Pakistan on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

"Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son - a student with no political experience - was named symbolic leader of her party Sunday, while her husband took effective control, extending Pakistan's most enduring political dynasty."

Medical Report of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto (pdf)

"On 27-12-2007 at approximately 5:35 p.m. a female patient was brought in Accident & Emergency Department of Rawalpindi General Hospital, Rawalpindi. She was brought to the Resuscitation Room and was received by Dr. Aurangzeb Khan and Dr. Saeeda of Surgical Unit-II. The patient was identified as Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto."

Panic Over Pakistan

"Pakistan is not now fated to fall into the hands of radical Islamists. Such an outcome becomes more probable, however, the more determined we are to "do something." As Dr. Paul knows from his experience as a physician, the guiding rule of American foreign policy should be "First, do no harm." Taking "action" – intervening either militarily or politically – will do more harm than good."

Pakistan offers to exhume Benazir Bhutto

"The Pakistani government has offered to exhume the body of murdered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto if her party requests it."

Pakistan says sunroof, not bomb or bullets, killed Bhutto

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto waves as she leaves a rally in the city of Rawalpindi in this TV grab December 27, 2007, shortly before she was killed in a gun and bomb attack. Bhutto, 54, died in hospital in Rawalpindi. REUTERS/Reuters TV (PAKISTAN)

"Pakistan's interior ministry said Friday that Benazir Bhutto was killed after smashing her head on her car's sunroof while trying to duck, and that no bullet or shrapnel was found inside her."

U.S. Brokered Bhutto's Return to Pakistan

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signs a condolence book for slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, seen on portrait, Friday, Dec. 28, 2007, at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington. Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

"For Benazir Bhutto, the decision to return to Pakistan was sealed during a telephone call from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just a week before Bhutto flew home in October. The call culminated more than a year of secret diplomacy -- and came only when it became clear that the heir to Pakistan's most powerful political dynasty was the only one who could bail out Washington's key ally in the battle against terrorism."

Once again, the not so invisible hand of America comes to light. Condoleezza had to know that Bhutto's return to Pakistan would place her in grave danger. Signing Bhutto's condolence book is the least she can do. If Condi really wanted to extend her condolences she should call Bhutto's husband and three children and explain to them why she convinced Benazir to return to Pakistan as a counter-weight to President Musharraf.

Pakistan's Fractured Polity: Who Killed Bhutto?

Supporters prepared the grave of Benazir Bhutto, who was laid to rest next to the body of her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in the family’s ancestral graveyard.

"The death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is being mourned by millions of Pakistanis. She had a profound public base despite staying out of her country for nearly a decade and being dogged by corruption and nepotism charges. Her death, however, should not come as a surprise at all. For the past three decades, Pakistan has been turning into a ‘Jihad factory' under the guidance of the US and other Western powers. After 9/11 when Pakistan launched a war on its own people in the name of ‘War on terror', it was not uncanny to predict that the Jihadis who were nourished previously would turn against their old allies; the politicians and the military and the innocent people of Pakistan would get caught and entangled as a collateral."

Election '08: The Collapse of the 'Frontrunners'

"The media is now telling us that the Iraq war is no big deal, and isn't really an issue anymore, and yet the consequences of that war are defining the political landscape even as they speak. You'll remember that opponents of the invasion predicted that war with Iraq would destabilize the entire region and ripple outward from Baghdad – and we are seeing that now in the turmoil ripping apart Pakistan, as the assassination of Benazir Bhutto underscores the fragility of an ostensibly pro-US regime that has access to nuclear weapons."

Pakistan's Bhutto killed in attack

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto wears a shawl presented by her supporters, a gesture of respect, during her visit to Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. Bhutto was undergoing surgery Thursday Dec. 27, 2007, after she was wounded in a suicide attack that killed at least 20 other people, according to a party aide said. Sen. Safdar Abbasi said Bhutto was been hit in the bomb blast and was in a serious condition. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)

"Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, aides said."