The only son of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto told hundreds of thousands of supporters yesterday, on the fifth anniversary of his mother’s death, that he would carry forward her legacy, an appearance designed to anoint him as a political heir.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today increased the pressure on Pakistan to help investigate the Mumbai massacres.

Authorities finished the gruesome task of removing bodies from the Taj Mahal hotel today, the final site of the Mumbai siege to be cleared.