The UN Security Council strongly condemned on Thursday the
assassination of Pakistan's opposition leader and former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto.
In a statement released after an emergency meeting with the
presence of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, council members
slammed the terrorist attack "in the strongest terms."
Calling the assassination a heinous act of terrorism, the
council also paid tribute to Bhutto .
It called on all Pakistanis to exercise restraint and maintain
stability in the country, and reiterated its consistent stance to
combat by all means threats to international peace and security
caused by terrorist acts.
Bhutto was killed Thursday evening in a suicide attack during
her election rally at the Liaquat Bagh park in Rawalpindi, some 30
km south of capital Islamabad. At least 22 other people were killed
and 56 were wounded in the attack.
(Xinhua News Agency December 28, 2007)
