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Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated at age 54 on Thursday in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, spent three decades navigating the turbulent and often violent world of Pakistani politics, becoming in 1988 the first woman to be democratically elected to lead a modern Muslim country.
Police and rescue officials say a gas explosion has ripped through an apartment building in Pakistan’s largest port city of Karachi, killing at least 16 people, after part of the structure collapsed on the first day of Ramadan.