Former president and military dictator Pervez Musharraf was aware that the Taliban was plotting to kill former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, but he did not pass on the information to the authorities concerned, said a team probing the 2007 assassination. The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) found that Musharraf knew that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud [...] Continue reading Musharraf knew of plot to kill Benazir, reveals probe
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto had been assured that she would be the prime minister after the 2007 general elections, revealed a forensic report that was compiled after retrieving data from her personal BlackBerry phones. An email begins by calling her “Respected Prime Minister”. The Express Tribune said that one of her close [...] Continue reading Benazir was promised she would be PM: Forensic report
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik did not know that former president Pervez Musharraf was to be included in the list of accused in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case and was taken aback when he saw the news on TV, a media report said. Dawn reported that the Federal Investigation Agency’s joint investigation team, headed by [...] Continue reading Benazir killing: Malik in dark about Musharraf being named accused
Former president Pervez Musharraf’s name was Monday included in the list of accused in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, a media report said. Musharraf’s name was added to the list following a statement of former Rawalpindi city police chief Saud Aziz, the daily Dawn reported. Aziz claimed that Musharraf had given the order to change [...] Continue reading Musharraf is now an accused in Benazir killing
Investigators probing the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto said they have found two BlackBerry mobile phones belonging to the slain leader. Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has recovered the phones from a servant at Bhutto’s family residence in Karachi, the Dawn reported Friday. The phones were used by Abdul Razzaq, a servant [...] Continue reading Benazir Bhutto’s BlackBerry phones found