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.

Pakistan’s parliament elected former speaker and Bhutto loyalist Yousaf Raza Gilani today as the nation’s new prime minister.

Scotland Yard forensic experts investigating the assassination of Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto are unlikely to discover who killed her, her supporters said today.

THE startling events in Kenya and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto stand in stark contrast to the opening skirmishes of the US presidential election.

Benazir Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari (pictured), who took effective control of his murdered wife’s party, is a former Cabinet minister who spent eight years in prison on corruption accusations and is known as “Mr 10 per cent” for allegedly taking bribes.