... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
Firdous Khan was killed in an hour-long shootout with police in the Manghopir neighborhood of the country's biggest city Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, said Usman Bajwa, a bigwig in the Crime Investigations Department.
Bajwa told AFP Khan was the criminal mastermind of the devastating bombing near Bhutto's truck at a political rally during her Pakistain homecoming parade in October 2007.
Bhutto survived the attack but was assassinated two months later in a gun and suicide kaboom at a rally in Rawalpindi.
"Firdous Khan was a Taliban capo who acted as a controller and trained the jacket wallah and later took him to the target," said Bajwa.
The then-administration of military ruler
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
blamed the liquidation on Pak Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who denied any involvement. He was killed in a U.S. drone attack in August 2009.
Bajwa said the shootout took place between Monday night and Tuesday morning.
Other turbans escaped during the exchange of fire by taking advantage of the darkness, he said.
Karachi, a city of 18 million people which contributes 42 percent of Pakistain's GDP, has been plagued by sectarian, ethnic and political violence for years.
The city is also racked by murderous Moslems, especially the Taliban.
More than 7,000 people have been killed in the insurgency by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain since it began in 2007, according to an AFP tally.