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Benazir Bhutto’s aide’s clarion call to PPP government to arrest her assassins

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s political secretary, Nahid Khan, has demanded that the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government must arrest the people behind her assassination. “Wake up and rescue PPP. It is high time to press rulers for arresting the assassins of Bhutto otherwise her sacrifice for the country would go to waste. [...]

Fatima Bhutto charges ‘uncle’ Zardari, says my father’’s killers leading nation

Former Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s grand daughter, Fatima Bhutto, has charged ‘uncle’ President Asif Ali Zardari for orchestrating the murder of her father, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, saying the killers of her father are ‘ruling the country at present’.
Speaking during her book ‘Songs of Blood and Sword’ launch function, Fatima described in detail her father’s [...]

Zardari advised to quit before graft amnesty annulled: Report

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had been advised to quit when it became known that the Supreme Court would strike down an amnesty against graft but he had rejected the plea in unequivocal terms, a media report Monday said.
Quoting well-placed sources, Online news agency said the heads of “top level institutions and other top functionaries [...]

Thousands mourn Pakistan’s Bhutto, two years on

Pakistan government officials on Sunday led thousands of loyalists in mourning the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, two years after her killing. Several thousand faithful gathered outside the mausoleum in southern Garhi Khuda Bakhsh village but complained that security

UN to probe Musharraf on unanswered questions on death of Benazir

United Nations investigators are preparing to question former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, amid mounting doubts over official versions of how she died and claims of a cover-up.
The Weekend Australian Magazine revealed Saturday evidence that a bullet – probably sniper fire from a high-velocity rifle – killed the former Pakistan [...]

Musharraf admits having “secret understanding” with Benazir Bhutto

Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, for the time, has admitted that there was a secret “understanding” between him and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto which facilitated her return to the country in October 2007.
“There was an understanding. I did talk to her, yes. I had been talking to her twice. She was not supposed [...]

Killers of Benazir will be exposed, punished soon

The killers of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will be exposed and punished soon, said Faisal Raza Abidi, the Political Secretary of President Asif Ali Zardari.
“An independent inquiry into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination (by a United Nations Commission) has begun. People will know within days, not months, as to who killed her, and see them being [...]

Arresting Awan, Malik could lead to Bhutto’s assassins: PPP

Arresting federal ministers Babar Awan and Rehman Malik could lead to the masterminds of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Chaudhury Aslam has said.
Aslam said he has already written a letter to the UN Commission probing the assassination asking it to arrest the ministers.
In an interview with an Urdu daily, [...]

Govt. knows Bhutto’s assassins: Lahore High Court CJ

While the UN commission is in the country to probe former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, the Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif’s shocking claims that the government is aware about all the facts regarding the murder, has raised questions over the PPP-led government’s intentions.
Addressing the members of the Islamabad District Bar [...]

Pak asked UN to probe Bhutto’s murder to stay clear of accusations: Zardari

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that his government had requested for an independent UN probe into late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination because it didn’t want to face any accusation of bias in the future.
“We approached the UN because firstly we wanted transparent and above board investigations so that there were no [...]