PPP Sets Nationwide Events for Benazir Bhutto’s 18th Anniversary

Overview

• Party leaders directed divisional and district organizers to arrange commemorations with broad public participation.
• Workers and supporters will travel in caravans to the central gathering at the Bhutto family mausoleum.
• Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007, with 23 PPP workers also killed and 35 people injured.
• Official inquiries have not established the motives or culprits in the attack, and Scotland Yard did not identify the killers.
• No formal memorial has been built at the Liaquat Bagh site of the assassination despite repeated annual remembrances.
• Families of the slain maintain strong ties to the PPP, and party financial support has helped improve their economic conditions.