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Islamabad: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto thinks a "hidden hand" was trying to create anarchy in Pakistan to pave the way for imposition of emergency.
She voiced the apprehension in a statement following a suicide bombing in Islamabad on Tuesday outside the venue of a convention of lawyers just before suspended chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was to address the gathering. The attack claimed 17 lives.
Benazir said the government had failed to maintain law and order in the country and there was no justification for it to stay in office.
"The government should resign and pave way for holding fair and free elections," Benazir said. She said her party was at great unease at the growing incidents of suicide bombings and acts of terrorism in the country.
Meanwhile, in a TV interview soon after the blast, the PPP chairwoman said that her party was the main target of the suicide attack, but not because of its stand on the Lal Masjid issue.
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