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Bhutto: 'Real Daughter of the Soil of Pakistan'

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December 27, 2007

Riots are breaking out on the grounds of the hospital where former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto died Thursday after being shot by a gunman who then blew himself up, a member of Bhutto's team says. Bhutto had just finished a campaign rally in Rawalpindi.

A distraught Farah Ispahani, part of Bhutto's team, says Bhutto died in the operating room. It was unclear whether a gunshot or the explosion killed her.

"Ms. Bhutto came back from a very comfortable life abroad," Ispahani says. "She came back to fight these forces of extremism. She came back to try to bring Pakistan back to a secular democracy. People like myself left our homes and left our families and joined her. The army killed her father. Her brothers were assassinated, and yet she came back. She came back for this country. She was a real daughter of the soil of Pakistan."

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