Benazir visited her father's grave before she was killed

Shahinshah is now on the run since the footage surfaced and is being sought by the authorities to clarify his possible role in the assassination of Bhutto.

He made the "strange gestures" while Benazir was delivering her last address in Rawalpindi last week, and this could provide a clue to her killing, Pakistan People's Party workers said. Khalid Shahinshah made the strange gestures while standing on the dais next to Bhutto while she addressed an election rally.
”Shahinshah was standing on Bhutto's left during her speech and ran a finger across his throat which implied slitting the throat. Security officials have expressed concern at his "suspicious gestures" which could not be ignored,” wrote the newspaper

The video can be viewed here: Shahinshah video

http://broadband.indiatimes.com/videoshow/2676864.cms

According to PPP workers, after Bhutto's speech, Shahinshah was in a rush to get inside her bulletproof vehicle and did not hold the door open for the former premier. Shahinshah was usually the last person to get into Bhutto's vehicle and at times, when there was lack of space in the car, he would stand on its footboard.

fter Bhutto's assassination, Shahinshah stayed at Zardari House, her home in Islamabad, for two days. He did not attend Bhutto's funeral in her ancestral village of Naudero in Sindh province and went there only on the third day after her death, The News reported.

On the other hand, the U.S. on Friday said it is not aware of any report in which Osama bin Laden or the al-Qaeda has taken responsibility for the assassination of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto. 

"We have not seen this report, if that's out there. And we'll certainly look for it," White House Deputy Spokesman Tony Fratto said of reports of al-Qaeda having claimed the responsibility for slaying of Bhutto.

Immediately after her murder, the Pakistan government had blamed al-Qaeda for the attack by claiming that intelligence agents intercepted a message of congratulation from a Qaeda-linked militant leader Baitullah Mehsud.

Meanwhile the New York Times reported last week that in the wake of Bhutto's assassination the White House was considering approving military operations inside Pakistan to target Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants.
Pakistani military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad reacted angrily to the report.
"It is not up to the US administration, it is Pakistan's government who is responsible for this country," he said.

The PPP and Benazir’s husband accused the Pakistani government for the murder of his wife. “Elements within the Pakistan government were involved in the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, her husband alleged today and sought the West's support for a UN investigation into the assassination, saying the ongoing official probe is like putting a 'fox in charge of the henhouse', Zardari said.

"Her murder does not end her vision and must not be allowed to empower her assassins. Those responsible - within and outside of government -- must be held accountable," Asif Ali Zardari wrote in a commentary in the Washington Post.

"I call on the United Nations to commence a thorough investigation of the circumstances, facts and cover-up of my wife's murder, modelled on the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri," he said.

Zardari, known as “Mr 10 percent’ in Washington and Pakistan, also called on the 'friends of democracy in the West', particularly the US and Britain, to support such an investigation.

"An investigation conducted by the government of Pakistan will have no credibility, in my country or anywhere else," he wrote.

"One does not put the fox in charge of the henhouse."

Zardari also alleged that the government postponed the general elections as they knew that Musharraf and his 'King's Party', a reference to the PML-Q that backs the President, 'were going to be thoroughly rejected at the polls and that the PPP and other pro-democracy parties would win a majority'.

He is today one of the most serious contenders backed by Washington to take on the job as Prime Minister, said the Washington Post on Sunday.

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Who Killed Her ?!!!
written by Doc.S, May 12, 2008

well we all agree it was an assasination, .. question is who benefits, .. you will get the answer. Remember that in politics, in this oart of world fathers were killed by sons and brothers by brothers, .... Mr. Rehman Malik, the guy who recommended this guy Khaid Shahinshah, and now doing all in PPP under Mr. Zardari has emerged as the 2nd (may be 1st) most powerful perosn in PPP. The legacy of Benazir will be used for other reasons and objectives. PPP is Hijacked

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