Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto Sunday visited hospitals to meet those wounded in last week's devastating suicide attack that turned her homecoming parade into bloody carnage. Bhutto was flanked by heavy security carrying automatic weapons as she made her first public outing since Thursday's blasts in Karachi, which killed 139 people and ruined her planned triumphant return after eight years in exile. She waved to dozens of supporters upon leaving Jinnah Hospital after she handed out envelopes containing 5,000 rupees ($84) to the injured and thanked staff for treating them. "My wounds were healed when I met Benazir Bhutto, it was the biggest thing in my life. I feel no pain now," Imran Ally, hit in the leg and chest by metal debris from the blasts, said.
Bhutto, the first female leader of an Islamic nation, later reiterated calls for a full investigation into the suicide attack, the worst in Pakistan's history, which also left 400 people wounded.