Information About Incident 54096-105768-266946 in Bagh Pakistan

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They purchased a pistol to be used by the suicide attacker because the plan was to kill Bhutto near the stage during her rally in Liaquat Bagh area of Rawalpindi in Punjab.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Liaquat Bagh Rawalpindi Punjab
• Matched District: Bagh
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: the plan
• Subject: Bhutto

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Anti-Terrorism Court was told on February 11 that former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed December 27, 2007 because she supported the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) operation, reports Dawn. Magistrate Taufiq Ahmed, who had recorded confessional statements of Rafaqat Hussain, Husnain Gul and Aitzaz Shah on February 13, 2008, said the accused told him that they wanted to kill only Bhutto and because of the deaths of 23 other people in the attack, which they regretted, they would accept any punishment awarded to them. According to the statements, the accused received PKR 360,000 from Baitullah Mehsud while his associates, Abdullah alias Saddam and Qari Ismail, provided them two suicide bombers Saeed alias Bilal and Ikramullah. They purchased a pistol to be used by the suicide attacker because the plan was to kill Bhutto near the stage during her rally in Liaquat Bagh area of Rawalpindi in Punjab.

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