2007 Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan after an eight-year exile. The same night, suicide bombers detonate explosives near Bhutto's convoy, killing approximately 100 people, including 20 police officers. Bhutto walks away unscathed.
The shortcomings of the police investigations became clear following an attempted assassination attempt on Bhutto on 18 October 2007, two and a half months before her death. More than 150 people were murdered when two suicide bombers struck her convoy. It is still considered one of the worst strikes carried out by militant Islamists in Pakistan. Because the police effort was so haphazard, the bombers were never identified.
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