Twin blast Benazir convoy kills 150 people and 500 injured.

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Bhutto
wept as she emerged from a plane that brought her from Dubai to
Karachi. At the airport, she climbed aboard the roof of a truck and
began a triumphant procession through Pakistan's largest city.She said
that our agenda is for the Poor and our agenda is for peace and
prosperity to the country.Her homecoming after self imposed exile of
eight years after she fled for corruption charges in year 1999 for
money Laundering by her country,Spain and Switzerland as her accounts
were frozen.An amnesty agreement with president Musharaff to trade off
deal she landed to participate in parliament election.

With parliamentary elections due in January, she hopes to campaign
for a third premiership. Political analysts call it risk her popularity
by tie-up deal with unpopular military ruler, President General Pervez
Musharraf.

Celebratory procession through Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi on
Benazir home coming after eight years in exile former Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto twin suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming killed 130
people Thursday night.

Twin explosions struck by suicide bomber near a truck carrying
Bhutto, fortunately she was not injured and was hurried huddled to her
house.

Karachi six hospital are put on emergency and Officials at six
hospitals in Karachi reported 130 dead and about 550 wounded, making it
one of the deadliest bombings in Pakistan’s history.However the report
of more dead is reported by many media and is put at 165.

On reaching the airport, Bhutto refused to use a bullet proof glass
cubicle built on atop the truck taking her to the tomb of Pakistan's
founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to give a speech. She squeezed
between other party officials along a railing at the front.

Bhutto told reporters her homecoming felt like a miracle. "I hope
that, as this miracle is happening, that a miracle will happen for the
impoverished and poverty-stricken people of Pakistan who are desperate
for change, who want safety, who want security, who want opportunity,
who want empowerment and employment," she said.

Her procession of Two lakhs people had been moving with snail pace
toward the center of Karachi for10 hours, dancing and cheering
supporters swarmed around the truck, when a small explosion erupted
near the front of the vehicle. Within a minute was quickly followed by
a larger blast just feet from the truck, smashing a escorting police
van on fire leaving 20 police official dead.Blasts breaking windows in
Bhutto's vehicle. Party members on top of the truck scrambled to the
ground, one man jumping while others climbed down a ladder or over the
side.

Bhutto was in to a downstairs compartment in the truck for a rest when the blast occurred as onlooker said
Begum
Abida Hussain and Fauzia Wahab, PPP Leaders,who were standing at the
truck were wounded by splinters. PPP leaders in the truck were
transferred to other vehicles and carried to safer places. Medical
emergency was declared at Jinnah and Civil Hospitals of Karachi
immediately after the blast.

Forty four bodies among many whose only body parts were recovered
were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Civil Hospital 33
bodies and 91 wounded were shifted, and 42 bodies were taken to Liaquat
National Hospital. Moreover, four dead bodies and 93 wounded were taken
Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and a body and 55 wounded persons were admitted
at Aga Khan Hospital.

People came forward for blood donations to meet blood requirement for large number of the injured.
Police
officer Raja Umer Khitab said evidence at the scene suggested it was a
suicide bombing. He said it destroyed two police vans escorting
Bhutto's truck.'' He said the legs and head of the suicide bomber has
been found.
A man tried to move towards the vehicle when he was stopped, he blown himself.
Ministry
of Interior Spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema has said over 70 deaths have
been confirmed. He said a new strategy would be made for movement of
Benazir Bhutto in the country.
Secretary General of United Nations
Ban Ki Moon has condemned the attack.Reports of condemnation is
forthcoming from other countries.Benazir husband Zaradari has put the
blame of blast on ISI.
Geonews

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