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A flag of the supporters of Benazir Bhutto. Bhutto (Karachi, 1953) was the leader of the main Pakistan party, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). After almost 5 years of exile, because Musharraf, Bhutto returned to Karachi on October 2007 to prepare for the 2008 national elections. The same day two explosions occurred shortly after Bhutto had landed and left Karachi Airport. A suicide-bomb attack killed 136 people and injured at least 450. On 27 December 2007, Bhutto was killed after a supporters party for the 2008 parliamentary elections. After entering her bulletproof vehicle, Bhutto stood up through its sunroof to wave to the crowds. At this point, a gunman fired shots at her and subsequently explosives were detonated near the vehicle killing approximately 20 people. *** General Caption *** Muttahida Quami Movement, generally known as MQM , ("United National Movement" in English) is an progressive liberal secular centre left party in Pakistan (initially on quasi-socialist lines) founded on 11 June 1978 as a student organization of "muhajir" (immigrants), the All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organization or APMSO, at the University of Karachi by Altaf Hussain who continues to remain its chief. Supposedly it represent the majority of immigrants who migrated from India to Pakistan in 1947. APMSO then gave birth to the Muhajir Quami Movement (MQM) on March 1984. From 1992 to 1994, the MQM was the target of the Pakistan Army's Operation Cleanup leaving hundreds of civilians dead. On July 26, 1997, MQM officially removed the term Muhajir from its name, and replaced it with Muttahida ("United"). In 1992, after the operation "Clean up", there was the split with key members of the party: the MQM-H or MQM Haqiqi, the "real" MQM, was born. Since then have not stopped the target killing from both sides. The target killing is getting intensified in Karachi with the military's ongoing counterinsurgency operation in Swat and Malakand. The MQM party is, maybe, the worst enemy of t
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