Fact check
Is it true: Benazir Bhutto assassination (Dec 27 2007, Rawalpindi)?
Partly — it's more complicated than the claim suggests.
Bhutto was assassinated at a Rawalpindi rally on 27 December 2007 in a combined shooting and suicide bomb attack. The UN Commission of Inquiry (2010, chair Heraldo Muñoz) found police hosed down the crime scene within 90 minutes of the attack. Five were convicted in 2017; Musharraf charged in absentia. TTP/Mehsud attribution has evidential support but was never legally tested. Extent of senior state complicity remains unresolved.
The claim
Pakistan Peoples Party leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007 at Liaquat National Bagh in Rawalpindi following a political rally. She had returned from exile in October 2007 after
Key evidence
UN Commission 2010: crime scene hosed down within 90 minutes
Five individuals convicted, September 2017
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