Benazir Bagh now?

The Nation too lingered a while at the site of assassination: “Located at a busy place of Murree Road, Liaquat Bagh stands in the annals of country’s history with major assassination attempts on three prominent political leaders. The country’s first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated on October 16, 1951, when he was addressing a gathering of 100,000 at Company Bagh (later renamed Liaquat Bagh) in Rawalpindi. The record says the murderer Said Akbar was an Afghan national and a professional assassin. On March 23, 1973, the Federal Security Force, a paramilitary force attacked a public opposition rally of Awami National Party leader led by Wali Khan at Liaquat Bagh killing dozen of ANP workers. Wali Khan narrowly escaped the attempt.”

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