2007年12月27日，在巴基斯坦的拉瓦尔品第，巴人民党领导人贝·布托参加一场竞选集会。几分钟后，她遭遇暗杀身亡。这位反对派领导人在外流亡8年后回到巴基斯坦，就在她几个月前刚回到卡拉奇的时候幸免于一次自杀式炸弹袭击。在那以后近6周的紧急戒严时期，所有大规模集会都禁止举行。在拉瓦尔品第的集会是她举行过的规模最大的一次，吸引了数千名支持者参加。在离开活动现场准备乘防弹车离开的时候，她从车顶天窗向外挥手，喜爱她的支持者将车围得水泄不通。就在这时，枪声响了，在贝·布托躲进车内的时候，自杀式炸弹携带者对她进行了袭击。爆炸发生后几秒之内，受损的专车飞快驶离，爆炸现场则血流成河，一片混乱，伤者等待救援，贝布托的支持者们痛苦地尖叫。她的遇害震惊全国上下，巴基斯坦未来局势堪忧。
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto sits on stage at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Dec. 27, 2007, just minutes before she was assassinated. The opposition leader had returned to Pakistan after eight years in exile and had survived a suicide bomb blast during her arrival procession in Karachi only months before. Following almost 6 weeks of emergency rule when large gatherings were banned, her campaign rally in Rawalpindi was her largest event yet, drawing thousands of supporters. Departing the event, she came out into the open road waving from the sun roof of her armored vehicle, her adoring supporters pushing to get close and slowing the vehicle's movement. Gunshots sounded, and as she dropped down through the roof into the car, a suicide bomber set off his charge. Within seconds, her damaged vehicle sped away, leaving a scene of chaos and carnage, as the dead and injured waited to be taken away and her supporters screamed in anguish. The assassination left the country in a state of shock and cast serious doubts on the prospects of democracy in Pakistan.
