Bad blood between Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf's allies in Pakistan have bubbled to the surface, after an attack on the opposition leader that killed 139 people four days earlier.
No arrests have been made since last Friday's suicide bomb attack, which government officials swiftly blamed on Islamist militants. An anonymous threat of another suicide attack against Ms Bhutto had been received by her lawyer, an aide said.
"Benazir Bhutto doesn't want democracy to be interrupted and she is not deterred by such threats," Sherry Rehman, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Information Secretary, told reporters.
Ms Bhutto, who came back from eight years of self-imposed exile last Thursday, has said she told General Musharraf that members of the establishment were involved in a conspiracy against her.
Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan revealed the Chief Minister of Punjab province, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, was one of the people named by Ms Bhutto, but said such accusations hurt chances of a rapprochement.
"If this trend of implicating political rivals into false cases continues, what chances for national reconciliation will there be?" Mr Khan said.
Ms Bhutto is negotiating with Gen Musharraf, who came to power in a coup eight years ago, over a transition to civilian-led democracy. The United States is believed to be quietly encouraging the two to work together.
They are seen as progressive and pro-Western leaders who will support NATO efforts to stabilise Afghanistan and fight Al Qaeda militants in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
US Ambassador Anne Patterson met Ms Bhutto for around 30 minutes on Tuesday (local time), according to PPP officials.
While Ms Bhutto has maintained a high profile, visiting victims in hospital, going to neighbourhoods where support for PPP is strong and meeting the media regularly, the government has been mostly quiet. It is unclear why government leaders have taken a lower profile given the heavy loss of life.
The probe into the attack has made little progress, though a picture of the suspected suicide bomber's head has been released.
Investigators had initially believed an explosion moments before the suicide bomber struck had been caused by a grenade, but police said they were now unsure.
Ms Bhutto has said that shots were fired at the truck she was travelling in, and her security had arrested a man armed with a pistol and another with a suicide vest before the attack, but none of this has been confirmed by police.
"Pakistani police are not to the quality of what you see on TV with CSI - they don't go round with their little bootees on and gloves," said a Western diplomat in Karachi.
I don't think it should be EVEN A PART OF ANY CORNER OF THE WORLD!
Politics can just ruin your life! nothing more than that!
You temme, what exactly, a person can do by living a POLITICIAN LIFE? kill their own blood in the matter of winning that spot! not only that buh also IT DON"t give you any other option beside GETTING RID OF YOUR LOVE ONES!
Politics is only thing that is going to take pakistan to insanity!
All politicians should be hanged or shot in bulk..
And the government should be given to PHDs of the universities of Pakistan..
If you take the step you will see yourself and your nation rising upto the sky!
Long live PAkistan!
DEATH for politicians!!!
Allah-U-Akbar!
i wanna see and support new and fresh politician in Pakistan
like Moonis Elahi
Hamza Shahbaz
Bilawar Bhutoo
Abdullah Gillani
and alot of more...
i think now its to time to see the leader .. doesn't matter he which party he belongs... we need leader not pary...
i saw Moonis Elahi's Website...
his vision is good...
actually i like his smile and personality...
cute man..
u can see his profile on his official website
www.mooniselahi.org
I guess miracles cannot occur overnight or even over a few years... But he is doing a good job. I especially like this progress of the Indo-Pak relationship.
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