Bhutto membuang sendiri di luar negara semasa kes-kes beliau tertinggal di mahkamah-mahkamah [[Pakistan]] dan negara lain.<ref>{{cite news|first=Parveen|last=Talpur|url=http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071210/OPINION/712100307/1005/OPINION|title=Pakistan's fragile future|publisher=Press & Sun-Bulletin|accessdate=2007-12-27|date=2007-12-10}}</ref> Selepas 8 tahun di [[Dubai]] dan [[London]], Bhutto pulang ke [[Karachi]] pada [[18 Oktober]] [[2007]] untuk bersedia diri untuk [[Pilihanraya umum Pakistan, 2008|Pilihanraya 2008]], dengan kemungkinan untuk berkongsi kuasa dengan Presiden [[Pervez Musharraf]].<ref name=death/><ref name=cbc>{{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/10/17/bhutto.html | title=Supporters flock to Karachi for Bhutto's return |accessdate=2007-12-27|date=2007-10-17 | publisher= CBC News}}</ref>
SheBeliau survivedterlepas daripada [[2007Pengeboman Karachi bombing2007|ansatu assassination attemptpercubaan]] madeuntuk onmembunuhnya hersemasa lifekepulangan duringbeliau, thismengakibatkan homecoming139 whichorang left 139terbunuh peopledan deadbeberapa andratus hundredsorang woundedcedera.<ref name=nytimes_karachi>{{cite news|first=Carlotta|last=Gall|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/world/asia/19pakistan.html|title=Bomb Attack Kills Scores in Pakistan as Bhutto Returns|coauthors=Masood, Salman|publisher=The New York Times|date=2007-10-19|accessdate=2007-12-27}}</ref> EnDalam routeperjalanannya toke asebuah rallyperhimpunan indi [[Karachi]] onpada [[18 OctoberOktober]] [[2007]], twodua explosionspeletupan occurredberlaku shortlysebaik aftersaja Bhutto hadtiba landeddan and leftmeninggalkan [[JinnahLapangan InternationalTerbang AirportAntarabangsa Jinnah]] returning from hersemasa exilekepulangannya.<ref name=attacktimeline>{{cite news |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP260961 |title=Chronology: Attacks in Pakistan since July 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-27 |publisher=Reuters |date=2007-12-27}}</ref> Bhutto wastidak not injuredtercedera, buttetapi theserangan explosions,pengeboman laterbunuh founddiri to be a suicide-bomb attackini, killedmenyebabkan 139 peopleorang andterbunuh injureddan atsekurang-kurangnya least450 450orang cedera.<ref name=attacktimeline/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7051804.stm |title=Attack on Bhutto convoy kills 130 |publisher=BBC|date=2007-10-19 |accessdate=2007-12-27}}</ref> TheKematian deadini includedtermasuk at leastsekurang-kurangnya 50 ofdaripada thepengawal securitykeselamatan guards from herdari [[PakistanParti People'sRakyat PartyPakistan]] (PPP), whoyang hadmembentukkan formed asatu [[humanrantai chainmanusia]] arounddi hersekeliling trucklorinya tountuk keepmencegah potential bombers awaypengebom, asdan welljuga as6 6orang policepegawai officerspolis.<ref name=firstattack>{{cite news |first=Graham|last=Bowley|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20Pakistan.html?pagewanted=2 | title=After Bombing, Bhutto Assails Officials' Ties |date=2007-10-20 | accessdate=2007-12-27|publisher=New York Times}}</ref> A number of senior officials were injured. Bhutto was escorted unharmed from the scene.<ref name=firstattack/>
