BIBI has died,” said a sobbing Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) official outside the Rawalpindi hospital, as he announced the death of Benazir Bhutto, the charismatic PPP leader and former Pakistani Prime Minister, shortly after the December 27 explosion in Rawalpindi last year.

Since then, the death of Benazir Bhutto has become a public commodity. The PPP, along with other opposition groups, is insisting that the elections be held as original