Bhutto Was To Expose Musharraf's Plan to Rig Elections

One of the reasons Musharraf gets along so well with Bush is that he's part of the "Democratic" process Bush supports in Pakistan. Bush wanted to set him up to rig elections and monitor his political opponents just like Bush does in the US.
But Bhutto was going to spoil Musharraf's fun by exposing his voting corruption to the visiting US Congressman and Senator.
Pakistan government delays elections - CNN.com

Pakistan's parliamentary elections have been postponed until Februrary 18 because of the unrest following the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.


The elections were originally scheduled for January 8, but that would have been "impossible" because of the time needed to re-do burned ballot papers and repair ransacked election offices, Chief Election Commissioner Justice Qazi Muhammad Farooq said on Wednesday.


Provincial officials also wanted the elections delayed until after the Muslim holy month of Muharram, which will begin around January 9 and end about February 6.


Kanwar Dilshad, the commission's secretary general, had earlier said a decision would be made after consulting with all the political parties.


However, spokesmen for Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party said neither had been formally consulted by early afternoon Wednesday in Pakistan.


Both opposition parties wanted the elections to go ahead as scheduled next week, hoping to capitalize on the sympathy following Bhutto's killing.


Sharif told reporters that he believed Musharraf -- who was scheduled to address the Pakistani nation on Wednesday evening -- intended to delay the vote because his party would not garner enough seats in parliament to rule.


The United States welcomed Pakistan's decision to announce a specific election date, fearing that the government might indefinitely delay the vote.


"It's important that there is a firm date for elections," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said shortly after Wednesday's announcement. "We hope that all the political parties will work together to ensure a free and fair election."


Meanwhile, sources close to the slain former Pakistani prime minister earlier told CNN that Bhutto had planned to hand over to visiting U.S. lawmakers on the day she died a report accusing Pakistan's intelligence services of a plot to rig parliamentary elections.


Bhutto was assassinated Thursday, hours before a scheduled meeting with U.S. politicans Patrick Kennedy and Arlen Specter.


A top Bhutto aide who helped write the report showed a copy to CNN.


"Where an opposing candidate is strong in an area, they [supporters of President Pervez Musharraf ] have planned to create a conflict at the polling station, even killing people if necessary, to stop polls at least three to four hours," the document says.


The report also accused the government of planning to tamper with ballots and voter lists, intimidate opposition candidates and misuse U.S.-made equipment to monitor communications of opponents.


"Ninety percent of the equipment that the USA gave the government of Pakistan to fight terrorism is being used to monitor and to keep a check on their political opponents," the report says.