Overview
- The PPP and state leaders marked December 27 with ceremonies and messages, with President Asif Ali Zardari pledging to carry forward Benazir Bhutto’s democratic vision and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari set to address a public gathering in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh.
- From January 1, 2024 to December 27, 2025, the Benazir murder case was not fixed for hearing at the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench, where about a dozen appeals remain pending.
- The 2017 ATC verdict stands as the only accountability to date, with two Rawalpindi police officers convicted for negligence and free on bail while five suspected militants were acquitted and no masterminds legally pinned down.
- A UN inquiry earlier faulted federal, provincial and local officials for failing to protect Bhutto and for a weak probe, a finding that continues to frame demands for accountability.
- Liaquat Bagh—site of the 2007 gun-and-suicide-bomb attack—remains neglected and the long-announced Benazir Bhutto Memorial has yet to be built despite a 2008 allocation, underscoring unfulfilled promises.