[DAWN] ON the recent occasion of Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
's 62nd birth anniversary, her husband and PPP's co-chairman spoke about her murder and said: "We cannot withdraw the FIR, no matter how much pressure you exert on us and how much you fight for that."
Heraldo Munoz of Chile, the head of the UN commission that probed Benazir Bhutto's murder concluded as follows: "Probably no government will be able or willing to fully disentangle the truth from the complex web of implication in Benazir Bhutto's liquidation." |