Brigadier hand in Bhutto death
Islamabad, Dec. 31: The plot behind the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto was hatched at the home of a Pakistani Army brigadier, claimed a media report. However, the interior minister, Mr Rehman Malik, dismissed the report as “totally concocted”. A fresh probe had uncovered the role of nine men, including the brigadier in whose residence the plot was hatched, the Express Tribune newspaper reported on Friday quoting unnamed sources. The findings of the investigation, conducted under the interior ministry’s supervision, were deliberately kept under wraps, even from the ruling PPP’s top leaders, it claimed.
The probe’s findings are in the possession of Mr Malik, the report said. It did not say whether the brigadier purportedly identified by the probe was a serving or a former Army officer. However, the interior minister dismissed the report. He said on Friday that the plot to assassinate two-time prime minister Benazir Bhutto was not hatched at any brigadier’s house.
“I think the media should refrain from such news that spread wrong impression. There was no man from the Army involved,” Mr Malik said. Mr Zardari was keen to “first take the Army leadership into confidence before ordering the arrest of certain uniformed personnel over their alleged involvement” in the assassination, the report said. Five of the nine conspirators are alive while the other four, including those sent to kill Bhutto, are dead, according to the inquiry report.
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