Extremists stop Pakistanis from selecting their representatives?

Two explosions occurred a few feet away from former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's convoy in Karachi early on Friday, (October 19, 2007) morning, killing at least 135 people and injuring over 545 others, dispel the notion contemporary international community is immune to such serious and ever-present threat of terrifying activity in challenging the democracy. Is it the indication that the extremists try to stop Pakistanis from selecting their representatives through an open and democratic process?

Ms Bhutto left the country shortly before Gen Musharraf seized power in a coup, but returned under a power-sharing deal that could see her becoming prime minister again. She had been planning to make a speech at the tomb of Pakistan's founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah.

After the blasts, a dazed Ms Bhutto was immediately rushed from the scene to her Karachi home. The terrifying incident draws the world attention but no one quickly claimed responsibility for the were suicide attacks bombings that devastated Benazir Bhutto's festive return to the southern city of Karachi on Thursday.

However, militants inked to al-Qaida and the Taliban had threatened to meet her with attacks. Government officials also had warned that intelligence reports suggested at least three groups sympathetic to Osama bin Laden's terror movement and the hard-line Taliban religious militias were plotting attacks on Bhutto.

The former prime minister's strong criticism of Islamic extremists who control swaths of Pakistan's northern border with Afghanistan made her many enemies, as did her openness to working with the U.S. and even allying with the Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.