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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has spoken out against vengeance on Saturday, the anniversary of the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, who was head of the Pakistan People's Party.
Speaking in Naudero and watched by the couple's three children, Zardari said Pakistan had suffered great losses, but he did not talk of vengeance.
"We have issues, yes we have issues. We have non-state actors, yes we have non-state actors, yes they are forcing their agenda, yes they are forcing an agenda on us. But please do not fall victim, because you will be the victim, we will be the victim, the region will be the victim."
Zardari took over Bhutto's party after her death and was elected president in September in the midst of a crushing economic crisis and soaring violence by militants who were also blamed for attacks on US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
More than 150-thousand Pakistanis flocked to the mausoleum to offer flowers and mourn at the grave on the first anniversary of her assassination.
Miss Khurshid is a visitor to mausoleum to show her condolence.
"We are here to mark the first anniversary of the death of Benazir Bhutto and we are missing our leader very much. There has been no one like our leader Benazir Bhutto, neither in the past or at present."
Earlier, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has announced a new human rights award in honor of Bhutto ahead of the first anniversary of her death.
At the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he's hopeful an independent commission will be established in the near future to investigate the assassination of the former Pakistani leader.
He also assured the Pakistani people and government of his commitment to search for truth and justice.
Former Pakistani prime minister Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack on December 27, 2007, as she was leaving a rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, just outside the capital of Islamabad.
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