The Assassination · BBC World Service

Episode 4: The Karachi Files

January 17, 2018·35 min·3 clips
Benazir Bhutto joked about returning to Pakistan, then said she had to go because it was her calling—the last time her friend saw her alive.
A dinner turns into a warning.

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A grave, politically literate true-crime chapter that keeps caution and state power in view.

The Karachi Files opens with a New York dinner between Benazir Bhutto, her husband, and Hussain Haqqani, then follows Bhutto back to Pakistan after years of self-imposed exile.

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You trace Bhutto's last dinner into the Karachi attack.

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