my first thought was that they were under pressure to toe the line - I also thought that the sudden 'blame it on her bumping her head' was to assuage more bloodshed amid the possibility of a full scale Civil War.

So to say she only had herself to blame for sticking her neck out (sic!!!) seems somehow to skim over the fact that someone really DID blow themself up right next to her car and no-one will ever know the truth.

She was by no means perfect, but she WAS for a Democratic Pakistan.