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Pakistan declares "breakthrough" in Bhutto case


    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto said on Wednesday they had made a "major breakthrough" in arresting two Islamist militants who said they had given her attacker a pistol and suicide vest.

    "They have confessed that they gave a suicide jacket and apistol to the bomber," Deputy Inspector General Chaudhry AbdulMajeed told reporters. "It's a major breakthrough. Theirconfession is a major piece of evidence in the case," he said.Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack after an electionrally in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27.

    (Reporting by Zeeshan Haider, editing by Tim Pearce)