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Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto\u2019s killing on December 27, 2007 shocked the world.
\nA few weeks before her murder, Bhutto sent an e-mail to newsanchor Wolf Blitzer at CNN in which she said she faced a threat to her life from then Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf.<\/p>\n

Amir Mir, one of Pakistan\u2019s foremost investigative journalists, draws from personal anecdotes, meetings and off-the-record conversations with Bhutto to reconstruct the assassination in his book The Bhutto Murder Trail \u2014 From Wazirstan to GHQ.<\/p>\n

Mir tells Rediff.com\u2019s Vicky Nanjappa that it becomes clear that Musharraf was in the know of the plot and the Pakistan establishment tried to stop Bhutto from returning to the country before getting her killed when she staged a comeback.<\/p>\n

What has the reaction to your book been?<\/p>\n

The response is very encouraging and beyond my expectations.<\/p>\n

However, establishment circles have reacted bitterly, especially to the inclusion of the word \u2018GHQ\u2019 (the Pakistan army\u2019s General Headquarters) in the title of the book.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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