Ukraine`s Foreign Ministry Thursday called for an objective and detailed investigation of the assassination of Pakistan`s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, according to Xinhua.

The ministry said in a statement that it was shocked by the acts of violence by the extremists on the eve of parliamentary elections in the country.

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The statement expressed the hoped that the Pakistani people and the leadership would exercise restraint and never give in to the extremists` provocation for the sake of an honest, free election.

Bhutto, the 54-year-old former Pakistani prime minister, died Thursday evening in hospital after sustaining fatal wounds in a bombing attack during an election rally at the Liaquat Bagh park in Rawalpindi, some 30 km south of Islamabad.

Pakistan`s Interior Ministry said that at least 10 people were killed and dozens wounded in the attack.