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Benazir Bhutto monument provokes anger in Pakistan

Plans for a monument to Benazir Bhutto have provoked anger in Pakistan where thousands of people are demanding that its 900m rupee (£7m) cost be used instead to help millions displaced by the country's floods.

Mrs Bhutto, a former prime minister of Pakistan and member of one of the country's most powerful families, was assassinated in a suicide attack in December 2007. Asif Ali Zardari, her husband, is now president, and the 10-acre park and library complex in her name received approval at the start of the month.

The monument has been more than two years in the planning and had already attracted the ire of political opponents and campaigners before the floods. The government has estimated that the floods have caused damage of $43 billion.

Plans for two monuments – one in Rawalpindi on the assassination site and one in Islamabad – have already survived a legal challenge, which argued that Mrs Bhutto should not be considered a "national hero"....
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