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Bhutto slaying ratchets up instability

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has sent Pakistan spiraling into increased turmoil. Host Amy Scott talks with professor Sumit Ganguly of Indiana University about the tragedy's impact on the nation's democracy movement and economy.

Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto addresses supporters in Rawalpindi on Thursday, before she was assassinated in a suicide attack. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images))

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