The ripples of the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Thursday continued to widen on Friday morning as the slain opposition leader's funeral was stained by skyrocketing violence throughout the country and outside it.
As Bhutto was being laid to rest, her furious supporters across the country ransacked banks, waged shootouts with police and burned train stations in a spasm of violence that threatened to plunge the country into deep turmoil less than two weeks before a crucial election.
So Islamic, it brings a tear to my eye.
President Pervez Musharraf's government allowed police to open fire on rioters disrupting the funeral, as the series of terror attacks sparked by the assassination continued.
A roadside bomb went off near a vehicle carrying a local leader from the ruling party in northwestern Pakistan, killing him and three of his associates, police said.
Early Friday morning, at least nine people were killed in clashes across the nuclear-armed US ally. In Indian-controlled Kashmir, Police clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators protesting the assassination of Bhutto.
Cause it's all the Hindus fault! |