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All named in UN report to face action
Farhatullah Babar said the PPP accepted the UN report on the assassination of Ms Bhutto at the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007. The meeting, he said, had reiterated the report and endorsed the partys position that Gen Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of Ms Bhutto. He said that Ms Bhutto also believed that Gen Musharraf wants to eliminate me. - File Photo.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party decided on Saturday to take appropriate legal actions against all those, including former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, who were named in the UN report as responsible for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
After chairing a meeting of the partys core group at he Presidency on Saturday night, President Asif Zardari asked Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to take action in the light of the UN report.
The document called upon the competent authorities in Pakistan to make a determination of the criminal responsibility for planning and carrying out the assassination.
According to Farhatullah Babar, the presidents spokesman, the party recommended to the prime minister, who attended the meeting, to also take appropriate legal actionagainst government officials mentioned in the report. He, however, did not elaborate on the term legal action.
Mr Babar said the PPP accepted the UN report on the assassination of Ms Bhutto at the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007. The meeting, he said, had reiterated the report and endorsed the partys position that Gen Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of Ms Bhutto. He said that Ms Bhutto also believed that Gen Musharraf wants to eliminate me.
She had mentioned it in a letter and in numerous press and public statements, he said, adding that the PPP reiterated its resolve to expose and bring to justice all those, including Gen Musharraf, who planned, abetted and indulged in the criminal act, screened off the offenders and destroyed evidence.
PPPs information secretary Fauzia Wahab told Dawn that the party had decided to constitute a committee to find out people within the party who were responsible for providing security to Ms Bhutto. She said the UN report had categorically held the Musharraf government, former Punjab government and the Rawalpindi administration responsible for Ms Bhuttos murder.
She said that cases had already been registered, but these could be altered in the light of legal experts opinion after examining the UN report.
PPP sources told Dawn that the government was also considering an option of putting the names of all those people mentioned in the report on the exit control list.
The meeting was also attended by Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Food and Agriculture Minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, Labour Minister Syed Khursheed Shah, Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Naveed Qamar, Law Minister Babar Awan, adviser to the prime minister Raza Rabbani, Leader of House in Senate Nayyar Bokhari, PPP Secretary General Jahangir Badar, Senator Faisal Raza Abidi, Rukhsana Bangash, Fouzia Wahab, MNA Fouzia Habib and Farhatullah Babar.
Participants of the meeting praised the UN inquiry commission for its efforts.
The PPPs Central Executive Committee in its meeting held in Naudero soon after the assassination of Benazir had called for an inquiry by a UN commission. The parliament also adopted a unanimous resolution calling upon the government to approach the UN for setting up of an inquiry commission.
Mr Babar said the commissions findings that the failures of the police and other officials to react effectively to Ms Bhuttos assassination were, in most cases, deliberate pointed to a conspiracy that the PPP believed had been hatched to physically eliminate its chairperson.
In a statement on Friday night, Mr Babar said the report took note of not immediately cordoning off the crime scene, washing the crime scene within one hour and forty minutes of the blast and the collection of only 23 pieces of evidence, in a case where one would normally have expected thousands, endorsing the suspicion voiced by the party at the time.
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Farhatullah Babar said the PPP accepted the UN report on the assassination of Ms Bhutto at the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007. The meeting, he said, had reiterated the report and endorsed the partys position that Gen Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of Ms Bhutto. He said that Ms Bhutto also believed that Gen Musharraf wants to eliminate me. - File Photo.
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party decided on Saturday to take appropriate legal actions against all those, including former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, who were named in the UN report as responsible for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
After chairing a meeting of the partys core group at he Presidency on Saturday night, President Asif Zardari asked Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to take action in the light of the UN report.
The document called upon the competent authorities in Pakistan to make a determination of the criminal responsibility for planning and carrying out the assassination.
According to Farhatullah Babar, the presidents spokesman, the party recommended to the prime minister, who attended the meeting, to also take appropriate legal actionagainst government officials mentioned in the report. He, however, did not elaborate on the term legal action.
Mr Babar said the PPP accepted the UN report on the assassination of Ms Bhutto at the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007. The meeting, he said, had reiterated the report and endorsed the partys position that Gen Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of Ms Bhutto. He said that Ms Bhutto also believed that Gen Musharraf wants to eliminate me.
She had mentioned it in a letter and in numerous press and public statements, he said, adding that the PPP reiterated its resolve to expose and bring to justice all those, including Gen Musharraf, who planned, abetted and indulged in the criminal act, screened off the offenders and destroyed evidence.
PPPs information secretary Fauzia Wahab told Dawn that the party had decided to constitute a committee to find out people within the party who were responsible for providing security to Ms Bhutto. She said the UN report had categorically held the Musharraf government, former Punjab government and the Rawalpindi administration responsible for Ms Bhuttos murder.
She said that cases had already been registered, but these could be altered in the light of legal experts opinion after examining the UN report.
PPP sources told Dawn that the government was also considering an option of putting the names of all those people mentioned in the report on the exit control list.
The meeting was also attended by Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Food and Agriculture Minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, Labour Minister Syed Khursheed Shah, Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Naveed Qamar, Law Minister Babar Awan, adviser to the prime minister Raza Rabbani, Leader of House in Senate Nayyar Bokhari, PPP Secretary General Jahangir Badar, Senator Faisal Raza Abidi, Rukhsana Bangash, Fouzia Wahab, MNA Fouzia Habib and Farhatullah Babar.
Participants of the meeting praised the UN inquiry commission for its efforts.
The PPPs Central Executive Committee in its meeting held in Naudero soon after the assassination of Benazir had called for an inquiry by a UN commission. The parliament also adopted a unanimous resolution calling upon the government to approach the UN for setting up of an inquiry commission.
Mr Babar said the commissions findings that the failures of the police and other officials to react effectively to Ms Bhuttos assassination were, in most cases, deliberate pointed to a conspiracy that the PPP believed had been hatched to physically eliminate its chairperson.
In a statement on Friday night, Mr Babar said the report took note of not immediately cordoning off the crime scene, washing the crime scene within one hour and forty minutes of the blast and the collection of only 23 pieces of evidence, in a case where one would normally have expected thousands, endorsing the suspicion voiced by the party at the time.
DAWN.COM | Front Page | All named in UN report to face ?action?
