Benazir Bhutto Sought U.S. Security But Was Denied: WikiLeaks

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Source: India Today

Benazir Bhutto sought US security but was denied: WikiLeaks

Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury | New Delhi, May 23, 2011 | Updated 09:03 IST

WikiLeaks has revealed that the US embassy in Islamabad had refused to provide security to former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto months before her assassination in December 2008 despite her personal requests to US Congressmen.

It is no secret that Bhutto faced threat from extremist forces including the Taliban. In fact her very return to Pakistan on Oct 18, 2007 was marked by bloodshed when a suicide attack on her motorcade at Karachi killed 140 people mostly her supporters and PPP activists.
Bhutto survived that attack but it was obvious that she was the target.

Subsequently the PPP president did not trust the state apparatus as she thought that it was hand in glove with the Taliban.

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