December 27 marks the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, a defining tragedy in Pakistan’s history. After returning from exile on October 18, 2007, she survived the Karsaz twin blasts in Karachi, reportedly thanks to a human shield formed by underworld figure Rehman Dacoit. Weeks later, she was killed in a planned attack in Rawalpindi, with postmortem findings citing a fatal head injury from her armored vehicle’s sunroof lever. The contrasting

December 27 marks the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, a defining tragedy in Pakistan’s history. After returning from exile on October 18, 2007, she survived the Karsaz twin blasts in Karachi, reportedly thanks to a human shield formed by underworld figure Rehman Dacoit. Weeks later, she was killed in a planned attack in Rawalpindi, with postmortem findings citing a fatal head injury from her armored vehicle’s sunroof lever. The contrasting