December 27 marks the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, a defining tragedy in Pakistan’s history. After returning from exile on October 18, 2007, she survived the Karsaz twin blasts in Karachi, reportedly thanks to a human shield formed by underworld figure Rehman Dacoit. Weeks later, she was killed in a planned attack in Rawalpindi, with postmortem findings citing a fatal head injury from her armored vehicle’s sunroof lever. The contrasting

Almost two decades after her assassination we still don’t know who killed Benazir Bhutto. As the first woman to become prime minister of a Muslim country, Bhutto went toe-to-toe with the totalitarian forces that killed her father and controlled her country. To her supporters, she represented their great hope for Pakistan to break free from years of military dictatorship. ASSASSINS - Hear it now on ABC listen and stream on ABC iview. | ABC Asia