Dec. 27 Photo Brief: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari launches political career, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, heat wave in Brazil, 2013
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari launches political career, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home rescues abandoned pets, heat wave in Brazil, 2013 in lights and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, makes a speech to launch his political career during the fifth anniversary of his mother’s death, at the Bhutto family mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, near Larkana December December 27, 2012. (Nadeem Soomro/Reuters)
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- Activists of ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) hold a portrait of the late former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto during a candlelight ceremony in Lahore on December 27, 2012, on the fifth anniversary of her assassination. Vast crowds gathered to mark the fifth anniversary of the assassination of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto, and to witness her son launch his own political career. (Arif ALIArif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A woman walks past a tinted window in front of the city skyline in Hong Kong on December 27, 2012. With the global economic weakness continuing to impact domestic economy, the IMF said it expects Hong Kong’s economy to grow 1.25 percent this year, before rebounding to three percent next year. (Dale de la Rey/AFP/Getty Images)
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- People walk past Free Syrian Army fighters in a car with an anti-aircraft gun in Aleppo city December 27, 2012. Lakhdar Brahimi, the international envoy seeking a solution to Syria’s 21-month-old conflict said on Thursday political change was needed to end the violence which has killed 44,000 people, and called for a transitional government to rule until elections. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)
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- Hunters skin a wolf killed in forest near the village of Padar, some 112 miles east of Minsk, December 27, 2012. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)
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- A group of young ecologists march with gas masks during a protest to draw attention to atmospheric pollution in Skopje on December 27, 2012.Skopje is one of the most polluted towns in Europe,concentration of dust is 16 times greater than allowed. (Robert Atanasovski/AFP/Getty Images)
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- This picture taken on December 26, 2012 shows children playing in flood waters outside their home in Malaysia’s northeastern town of Rantau Panjang, boardering Thailand. Floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains in Malaysia have claimed the life of a second victim although waters have subsided, allowing some evacuees to return home from relief centres, reports said. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Painted leather are being dried on boards outside a tannery in Old Cairo, December 27, 2012. (Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)
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- People enjoy Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro on December 27, 2012 as the temperature rises over 40°C. On the eve, Rio de Janeiro reported a heat record of 43.°C (109.7 °F), the highest temperature since 1915 according to the National Institute of Meteorology. (Vanderlei Almedia/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Internally displaced Afghan women from Helmand province wait to receive winter supplies from the UNHCR at the Charhi Qambar refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul December 27, 2012. Since the 2001 US-led invasion brought down the Taliban, 3.8 million have returned, leaving 1.6 million behind, most born and brought up in Pakistan. In late October, UNHCR boosted incentives for Afghans to return and around 10,000 Afghans went home from October 23 to November 30 — more than double the number who were repatriated in the same period last year. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Posed picture taken with long exposure time on December 26, 2012 shows the year “2013” being written in the evening sky with an electric torch near Sieversdorf, eastern Germany. (Patrick Pleul/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An anti-narcotics worker burns a bag containing cocaine during a drug incineration in Lima December 27, 2012. More than five tons of drugs including cocaine paste, marijuana and cocaine seized during police operations held between November and December were incinerated, according to the Interior Ministry news release. (Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)
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- Posed picture taken with long exposure time on December 26, 2012 shows four persons writing the year “2013” with sparklers in the evening sky near Sieversdorf, eastern Germany. (Patrick Pleul/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Indian members of NGO ‘Aastha’ hold placards during a protest in Mumbai on December 27, 2012, for better safety for women following the rape of a student in the Indian capital. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- An Indian policeman uses a megaphone to direct demonstrators as they move towards India Gate in New Delhi on December 27, 2012, during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student in the Indian capital. Protests across India over the last week against sex crimes have denounced the police and government, with the largest in New Delhi at the weekend prompting officers to cordon off areas around government buildings. One policeman was killed and more than 100 people injured in the violence. (Sajjad Hussain/APF/Getty Images)
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- A Baltimore City Police Officer walks by a flipped car after an accident on Mt. Vernon Dec. 27. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)
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- A man walks in the surroundings of the San Cristobal volcano (background L) in Chonco, Chinandega, on December 26, 2012. The San Cristobal volcano began spewing smoke and ashes on the eve. (Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Elephants run to the finish line at Sauraha in Chitwan, about 106 miles south of Kathmandu December 27, 2012. Elephants and mahouts from Chitwan will participate in the Elephant Races that began on Wednesday and ends on Friday, where elephants will play in an exhibition soccer match and various other sports and activities. (Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)
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- This picture taken on December 20, 2012 shows rising mist in downtown in Jilin, northeast China’s Jilin province. A fresh cold snap is hitting most parts of China recently, according to the National Meteorological Center’s forecast on December 26. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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- The Rose and Crown public house suffers flooding in the village of Severn Stoke near Worcester on December 27, 2012 in Worcester, England. 2012 could be the UK’s wettest year on record according to forecasters and there are currently 88 flood warnings and 207 flood alerts in England and Wales. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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- Santa, a dog abandoned two days before Christmas, is looked after by Charlene Gunner at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home on December 27, 2012 in London, England. The home was founded 150 years ago and has rescued, reunited and rehomed over three million dogs and cats. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
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- Billie Joe, a ginger kitten found abandoned with burnt whiskers and a cut mouth, is looked after at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home on December 27, 2012 in London, England. Around 550 dogs and 200 cats are provided refuge by Battersea at any given time. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Only son of Pakistan’s murdered Bhutto launches political career
Reuters | 10:08 a.m. EST, December 27, 2012
LARKANA, Pakistan (Reuters) – The only son of assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto told hundreds of thousands of supporters on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of his mother’s death, that he would carry forward her legacy, an appearance designed to anoint him as a political heir.
“I am the heir to the martyr,” Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 24, told the crowd in the southern province of Sindh, referring to his mother and to his grandfather, the founder of the current ruling party who was hanged by a former military ruler.
“If you kill one Bhutto, there will be a Bhutto in every house.”
Bhutto was joined by hundreds of high-ranking officials, including the current president, his father Asif Zardari, to commemorate his mother’s killing in a gun and suicide attack during a 2007 political campaign rally.
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Mehvish
Dec 29, 2012 @ 08:18:29
It is amazing that nobody is addressing what he actually said and what was wrong and insulting in that statement. Six months ago Bilawal made a more hard hitting speech and demanded the judiciary to move forward in BB’s murder case. He was “noticed” by many including the SC CJ but still no progress. Yet the opponents accuse Zardari and PPP for the murder and slow pace of courts. BB was murdered and crime scene was washed promptly by high power hoses, stories were spread about banging head against sunroof etc. PPP was not in power to do all that it was Mush and his govt. Again the SC (no friend of PPP) is not taking this case just like they sat on 26 cases against Zardari and did not conclude any in two decade! The memo case, sugar, gas and oil prices, all govt appointments are more imp for the SC than murder of dozens of people.