JERUSALEM, Dec 30: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday condemned the assassination of Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto, branding it as an act of religious extremism.
“We heard with great sorrow and bow our heads in the memory of the freedom fighter Benazir Bhutto,” Mr Olmert said at a cabinet meeting. She “ended up a victim of an act of terror by Islamic extremism and fundamentalism of the type we know so well in our region,”he said.—AFP
