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Islamabad: Pakistan's new government has renamed the international airport in the capital Islamabad after Benazir Bhutto, as people commemorated the birthday of the slain former prime minister on Saturday.
In a statement issued on the eve of her 55th birthday, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said after he had renamed Islamabad International airport as Benazir Bhutto International.
He said, "She is not amongst us today, yet she lives in the hearts and memory of the people of Pakistan."
Bhutto, whose party heads the ruling coalition, was killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack after she addressed an election rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi on December 27.
Bhutto's party has planned gatherings across Pakistan on Saturday to celebrate her life and political martyrdom, while her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, was due to attend a ceremony at her ancestral village of Garhi Khuda Baksh, where she is buried.
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