Mills Condemns Bhutto's assassination

Professor John Evans Atta Mills, Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Friday condemned the assassination of Ms. Banazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan and Leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

A statement by Mr. Koku Anyidoho, In-Charge of Communications at the Office of Prof. John Evans Atta Mills said what happened in Pakistan was an affront to democracy and the former Vice President condemned it in no uncertain terms.

"Democracy is about using legitimate and acceptable means to espouse ideas and beliefs and has nothing to do with shedding innocent blood and John Evans Atta Mills finds it extremely abhorrent the obvious level of political intolerant that led to the assassination of Ms Bhutto" the statement said.

Benazir Bhutto, who made history as the first woman Prime Minister in an Islamic State, was certainly a woman who did everything she could to push forward the frontiers of women empowerment and the NDC leader finds it exceedingly reprehensible that some coward cut short her energizing life in a gruesome manner, it added.

Prof Atta Mills said extremism in any form or shape could be dangerous and urged Ghanaians to take a cue from happenings around the world and resolve to be cautious in their political undertakings as Ghana entered an election year.

"John Evans Atta Mills' heart goes out to the late Benazir Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, her family, the PPP, as well as true loves of democracy in Pakistan and hopes that President Pervez Musharaf, as he has promised, will use the state apparatus to find the brains behind the shameful act and allow the law to deal with them as sternly as possible".