Bush plans to call Musharraf after Bhutto assassination

RAWFORD, TEXAS—: US President George W. Bush plans to telephone Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Thursday to discuss the situation in the wake of the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a spokesman said.

Spokesman Scott Stanzel said "we are working to arrange" a phone call between Bush and his key ally in the "war on terror" Musharraf, and that Bush "plans to talk to him today."

Bush earlier condemned the "cowardly" assassination of opposition leader Bhutto, who was slain in a shooting and suicide bomb attack after a campaign rally in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi