ABC (Australia) : Bhutto pushes election extension in wake of bombings

Bhutto pushes election extension in wake of bombings

ABC Australia | October 22, 2007

The former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, has briefly appeared in public for the first time since last week's bomb attacks which killed more than 130 people, targeting her return to the country after an eight year exile.

The popular political figure visited survivors of the attacks in hospital in Karachi.

Later she said the campaign for parliamentary elections in January would have to be modified because of the bombings.

She said her enemies within the Pakistani administration are plotting against her.

"Unfortunately, these militants and extremists have infiltrated the administrative and security apparatus of my country," she said.

"So they are able to conduct their attacks because of some level of collusion. I'm not saying that the Government hatched a plot."

- BBC