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| Three supporters of Bhutto shot dead in Balochistan | | | Islamabad | Dec 8
In the first pre-poll violence in Pakistan, at least three workers of former premier Benazir Bhutto's party were today gunned down by unidentified assailants in southwestern Balochistan province.
In a pre-dawn attack, gunmen barged into a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) office at a village in Naseerabad district, some 240 kilometres east of provincial capital Quetta, and fired indiscriminately, killing three persons and injuring one, police said.
Officials said the incident could be linked to old rivalry between two groups locked in a land dispute, one supporting the PPP and the other backing the rival candidate for the January 8 general election.
Today's attack was the first incident of violence ahead of the parliamentary polls, which the opposition parties have threatened to boycott if a charter of demands by them is not met by the government. However, talks among the parties are deadlocked over the issue of reinstation of judges deposed after the imposition of emergency.
Pakistan has been facing a political crisis since November 3, when President Pervez Musharraf clamped emergency and removed Supreme Court judges who were preparing to rule on the validity of his October re-election.
Bhutto returned to Pakistan on October 18 from self-imposed exile to lead her party. |
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