“Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!” was initially all that Dr. Amna Buttar could say this morning, stunned to find out that former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto had been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a political rally in Rawalpindi today.
Buttar, until recently an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, had been in Pakistan since October, joining Bhutto on the former prime minister’s triumphant return to her native country after eight years in exile.
“Everyone is in shock,” Buttar said. “It is very sad.”