Reuters, Islamabad

Benazir Bhutto’s party challenged official versions of the opposition leader’s assassination and accused Pakistan’s government on Saturday of trying to cover up failures just days before planned elections.
Fresh violence brought the death toll since Bhutto’s assassination in a gun and bomb attack on Thursday to 40, stoking fears a Jan. 8 election meant to restore civilian rule to the nuclear-armed U.S. ally could be put off.
Al Qaeda linked militants denied being behind the killing of the 54-year-old former prime minister. [Read more]