ISLAMABAD, June 10: The National Assembly passed a unanimous resolution on Tuesday asking the government to build a memorial to Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto at the site of her December 27, 2007 assassination in Rawalpindi.

“This house is of the opinion that the government, in consultation with the provincial government of Punjab, should build a monument and establish a library with the name of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto at the place of her assassination,” said the resolution moved by PPP member Justice (retired) Fakhar-un- Nisa Khokhar. It was taken up out of turn on the private members’ day on the insistence of several PPP members who said the matter would be delayed for a long time because of the new budget being presented on Wednesday if not voted on now.

Ms Bhutto was killed with several party workers in a gun-and- bomb attack just as she was being driven out of Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh park on Dec 27 immediately after she had addressed a PPP election rally there.

The site outside a park gate opening to what is known as Liaquat Road, which was mysteriously washed up by fire brigade hoses soon after the incident, has already become a virtual shrine where party workers and other people come to pray for the assassinated leader and place flowers.