President Pervez Musharraf contacted Benazir Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and Pakistan People’s Party Senior Vice Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim by telephone and expressed his sorrow and grief over the assassination of the former premier. The president told Zardari that the whole nation equally shared his (Zardari’s) grief and assured him that the incident would be fully investigated and those found responsible would be exposed. Musharraf urged the government and political parties to jointly wage a struggle against terrorism as “we can extricate the country from the dangers and crisis through the elimination of terrorism”.