By IANS,
Islamabad : The State Bank of Pakistan will issue a new Rs.10 coin in honour of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto to mark the fist anniversary of her death in a suicide attack.
The central bank said it will issue about 300,000 of the commemorative coins bearing Bhutto’s portrait with the words “Daughter of the East – Honourable Benazir Bhutto” inscribed in Urdu, The News reported Friday.
The former prime minister was assassinated in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi Dec 27, 2007 after addressing an election rally. She had survived a similar attack just two months before on her homecoming parade in Karachi. The government blamed a Pakistani Taliban for the attack.
Her death, however, helped her Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to win the general elections in February by a wave of sympathy for her.
To commemorate the slain leader, the first woman prime minister of an Islamic country, the government had also renamed Islamabad’s international airport, a main road and a hospital in Rawalpindi after her.