But all these voter identity cards are fakes.
Benazir Bhutto's niece Fatima has said that she will continue her struggle against "Asif and a clean record" after her uncle Asif Ali Zardari was acquitted of her father's murder.
A leader said Bhutto and her husband's frozen wealth, including both inland and offshore bank accounts as well as assets, is worth $1.5 billion.
The Dawn news channel quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying that a suicide bomber had struck the meeting of the Islamabad District Bar Association.
Bhutto said militancy has grown so strong in Pakistan that it posed a challenge to the unity of the country.
Conduct fair polls or quit by July 31, the two exiled prime ministers have told Musharraf.
Musharraf has said he will not allow Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif back in the country. Bhutto says she will return earlier than she had originally planned.
He said the general elections would be held by the end of the year in a fair and transparent manner, and any political action could be considered after viewing their outcome.
The series of bomb blasts across Pakistan have given residents of the federal capital cold feet and some of them are even refusing to step out to shop.
"I say this because he is a man of courage and honour. He spent 11 years in prison without bending despite torture. He has the political stature to keep our party united," she said in the hand-written letter described by the PPP as Bhutto's political will, which was released to the media in Islamabad on Tuesday.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf asserted May 11 that former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif would not be allowed to return from exile.
"Yes, I would like the body to be exhumed. Because I know for sure there is no bullet wound other than on the right side. Whether it was a bullet or a strike, I don't want to comment, I don't know," Musharraf said in a wide-ranging interview to Newsweek.
She was the prime minister who gave the ISI the go-ahead to wage jihad on India. She was the one who exhorted the Pakistan trained and financed terrorists to 'jag-jag mo-mo han-han' Jagmohan the then governor of Jammu and Kashmir, with an explicit chopping motion of the right hand across the open left palm. She was the one who shrieked 'Azadi-azadi' from across the LOC and extended Zia-ul-Haq's doctrine of death by a thousand cuts to Kashmir
On his joining politics, he had said, "We will see, I don't know. I would like to help the people of Pakistan, so I will decide when I finish my studies." "I can either enter politics, or I can enter another career that would benefit the people," Bilawal said when he was 15.
Mirroring the weak trend in the global markets following the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the Sensex opened with a negative gap of 59 points at 20,158.
She had raised the issue of her security throughout the day and even during the rally, she sent an aide notes, expressing her concern about the lack of security.
'I believe one of the pro-Taliban groups could be behind her killing. The fact that she created the Taliban now seems like an irony.'
Although Washington has concerns about political continuity in a post-Musharraf Pakistan, it needs to push ahead with the war on terrorism -- and is not interested in rocking the boat at this time.
Hitting out at Pakistan People's Party chief Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has accused the former Premier of wanting to avoid the general election due in January, saying that 'the darling of the West' was unlikely to win.
Pakistan is going through a very critical time today. It needs reconciliation not only between some individuals but also between political parties having adverse views.
'Bhutto has several corruption cases against her. We have given immunity to her and the Supreme Court is looking at whether this law meets the requirements of the Constitution. The people have had a strong reaction to removal of corruption cases against her," Minister Shaukat Aziz said.
Bhutto plans to travel by Emirates Airlines with a two-hour stop-over in Dubai before landing in Karachi on October 18
Pakistan's former interior minister Major General Naseerullah Babar denies a rediff.com column.
As is clear to the West as well, Pakistan is at the crossroads.
The prestigious Oxford University Students' Union faces allegations of racism after Ruzwana Bashir, a British-born Asian student whose win was disqualified last term on technical grounds, faced similar charges again after winning by a solitary vote.
'A psychological moment will be created when the Kashmiris will say they can't live with either India or Pakistan. At that time, America will step in and suggest a democratic solution to Kashmir,' former ISI chief Hamid Gul tells Sheela Bhatt.
Senator Faisal Javed, who was injured when a bullet grazed his face, said that a party worker was killed during the attack, while another was severely injured.
Bhutto says she is the only alternative in the country between the Musharraf dictatorship and the religious fundamentalists.
The husband of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has filed a petition in the Sindh High Court seeking government protection and issuance of a passport to enable him to go abroad for medical treatment and meet his family.
'Because I speak about accountability in the army, because I speak about the armed forces reforming themselves, the greedy generals don't like it,' \n\nsays Benazir Bhutto.
Nawaz Sharif was briefed about the Kargil plan on March 27 or 28, 1999, though he was "not aware" of the operations when he met Vajpayee on February 20, says a new book. \n\n
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