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The recent election of Mr Asif Ali Zardari as President of Pakistan with 68 per cent of the votes cast, has returned to supreme power the family of former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
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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..
