Pakistani authorities announced two "important arrests" in the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, as her husband issued a rallying call to supporters ahead of an election his wife should have fought. Polling was put off until February 18 after the slaying of the most charismatic Pakistani politician of the past 20 years sucked oxygen out of campaigning and heightened international concern about mounting insecurity in the nuclear-armed country.The arrests were made in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where two-time prime minister Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack by a hit team Pakistani and U.S. intelligence believes was sent by a Taliban commander linked to al Qaeda. "These are important arrests. Investigations are under way," Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said.
| "How important are they, Jake?" "Very important!" |
| I don't think taking a poll is considered a valid investigation technique, though. |