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A United Nations investigation into the killing of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will expose her assassins “and bring them to justice,” the organization’s chief said Wednesday.
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A Pakistani guard stands alert outside a local hospital where Khalid Shahenshah a bodyguard of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was brought in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Gunmen shot and killed Shahenshah in the Pakistani city..
