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    What's Next for Pakistan?

    Despite photographs of a gunman and doctors' reports of bullet wounds to the head and chest, the Pakistani government claims that Benazir Bhutto died when her head struck the sunroof of her vehicle. President Pervez Musharraf has asked help from Scotland Yard to investigate the assassination.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Despite photographs of a gunman and doctors' reports of bullet wounds to the head and chest, the Pakistani government claims that Benazir Bhutto died when her head struck the sunroof of her vehicle. President Pervez Musharraf has asked help from Scotland Yard to investigate the assassination. After Bhutto's killing and Musharraf's fumbling response, Pakistan is "disintegrating." That's the opinion of a former high-level Pakistani official, who talks ominously about the "death of hope" in his country. We talk with him and others about the impact of the assassination and elections as a possible vehicle for national unity. Will Scotland Yard give Musharraf new credibility? Was he ever a trustworthy ally in America's "war on terror?"

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Pakistan: Is a Nuclear Power Becoming a Failed State?
    1. 1:37Ethnic Violence in the Streets of Nairobi
    2. 7:45What's Next for Pakistan?You’re reading this
    3. 43:44One Last Look at Iowa before the Caucuses
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