Musharaf accuses Zardari of plotting Benazir, Murtaza Bhutto’s murder

The former President of Pakistan, Gen (retd) Parvez Musharaf has accused Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Asif Ali Zardari of being the one behind the assassination of Benazir and Murtaza Bhutto. The revelation came just days after he was accused of the one being involved in Benazir Bhutto’s murder.

Musharaf made these startling statements in a video message which was released on the media channels.

“The one responsible for all miseries of the Bhutto family as well as the assassination of Benazir and Murtaza Bhutto, is none other but [Asif Ali] Zardari,” Musharraf said in a video message released on Thursday.

“Zardari did nothing to investigate the murder of Murtaza Bhutto as he enjoyed his stay in the presidency for five years.”

Benazir was killed in a gun and suicide attack in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. On August 31, the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi acquitted five alleged operatives of the outlawed Tehreek-a-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for want of evidence over her assassination.

Murtaza Bhutto was shot to death in 1996 while he was on his way home in Karachi. At the time of the attack, Benazir was the prime minister and this became the cause of her government’s fall shortly after. In 2008, Zaradari was acquitted of the charges of ordering the murder.

“Why would Zardari investigate Murtaza Bhutto’s murder when he, himself carried out the assassination,” Musharraf asked. “It should always be analysed as to who benefited from a murder,” he said. “I was in total loss following the assassination, while only one man earned the benefits, the one who murdered him.”

He added that Benazir was killed by Beitullah Mehsud and his accomplices, saying “the executor used him to carryout the murder”.

It should be investigated, the former army chief said, as to who killed Khalid Shehenshah, the person who was supposed to provide security to Benazir.

“It also needs to be probed who made a hatch out of the bulletproof vehicle which was carrying Benazir, he said. “Only one person is capable of [plotting the assassination], and that person is Asif Ali Zardari.”

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