By RIA Novosti
Islamabad : Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has received fresh terrorist threats from Al Qaeda following last week’s attack on her motorcade in Pakistan’s largest city, local media reported Wednesday.
Two blasts that rocked Karachi last Friday left 140 people dead and over 500 injured as hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets to greet Bhutto, who flew in from Dubai after eight years of self-imposed exile.
Local media cited Bhutto’s attorney, Farooq Naek, as saying that he had received a letter from an unidentified “leader of a group of Al Qaeda suicide bombers” threatening to slaughter Bhutto “like a goat”.
Bhutto, who was unhurt in the Friday’s assassination attempt, had announced earlier that she suspected supporters of former military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq of orchestrating the attack.
Zia, who overthrew Bhutto’s father, the then prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and had him executed in 1979, died in a plane crash in 1988.
Bhutto is set to run in the parliamentary elections slated for January next year. She has pledged to put an end to extremism and to develop democracy in the country if she returns to power.