Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto died after gunfire and a suicide bomber targeted her vehicle as she left a campaign rally outside the Pakistani capital on Thursday. Guests discuss what happened at the rally, Bhutto's legacy as prime minister and the implications of her death.
Guests:
Peter Wonacott, senior correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
Zia Mian, research scientist at the Program on Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton
Ambassador Peter Galbraith, senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation; former U.N. ambassador and staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ahmed Rashid, journalist; author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Jackie Northam, NPR's national security and foreign desk correspondent
Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani, Pakistani ambassador to the U.S.
Sen. Robert Menendez, (D-NJ) member of U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.