The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, attributed to the Taliban, removed the only Pakistani political leader capable of simultaneously winning democratic elections and combating Islamist extremism with Western support. Her death destabilised Pakistani politics and deepened the state's entanglement with the militants she had pledged to dismantle.

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