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    U.N. Bhutto assassination inquiry report delayed

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100330...n-81f3b62.html

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    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accepted an urgent request from Pakistan to delay presentation of a U.N. report on the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the world body said on Tuesday.

    The report on a nine-month inquiry by a three-person U.N. panel, was originally due to be presented by Wednesday, but Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari requested it be delayed until April 15, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

    Nesirky gave no reason for the Pakistani request.

    The panel, headed by Chile's U.N. Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, looked into the circumstances surrounding the attack that killed Bhutto after an election campaign rally in Rawalpindi city on December 27, 2007.

    Nesirky told reporters that the report was completed and was ready for delivery. But he said neither Secretary-General Ban nor the Pakistani government had seen it.

    Ban set up the panel at the request of Pakistan's coalition government, led by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.

    The previous government, headed by allies of former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf, blamed then Pakistani Taliban leader and al Qaeda ally Baitullah Mehsud for Bhutto's murder. Mehsud was killed in a U.S. drone strike last August.
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    UN slams deliberate failure to adequately probe Bhutto assassination

    http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0415/sla...assassination/

    By Agence France-Presse
    Thursday, April 15th, 2010 -- 9:05 pm

    bhutto horizontal UN slams deliberate failure to adequately probe Bhutto assassinationPakistani police deliberately failed to properly probe the 2007 murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto which could have been averted if there had been adequate security, a UN-appointed independent panel said Thursday.

    "Ms Bhutto's assassination could have been prevented if adequate security measures had been taken," said the report by a three-member panel headed by Chile's UN ambassador Heraldo Munoz.

    The panel said responsibility for Bhutto's security on the day of her assassination rested with "the federal government, the government of Punjab and the Rawalpindi district police."

    "None of these entities took the necessary measures to respond to the extraordinary, fresh, urgent security risks that they knew she faced," it added.

    The panel said it believed that Pakistani police's failure to probe the slaying effectively "was deliberate."

    "These officials, in part fearing intelligence agencies' involvement, were unsure of how vigorously they ought to pursue actions, which they knew, as professionals, they should have taken," it added.

    The panel said the Pakistani probe "lacked direction, was ineffective and suffered from a lack of commitment to identify and bring all of the perpetrators to justice."

    It added it was up to Pakistani authorities to carry out a "serious, credible criminal investigation that determines who conceived, ordered and executed this heinous crime... and brings those responsible to justice."

    The Munoz-led panel was tasked with establishing the facts and circumstances of the slaying and was not empowered to identify culprits.

    Bhutto, the first woman to become prime minister of a Muslim country, was killed on December 27, 2007 in a gun and suicide attack after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near the capital Islamabad.

    Bhutto's supporters have cast doubt on an initial Pakistani probe into her death, questioning whether she was killed by a gunshot or the blast and criticizing authorities for hosing down the scene of the attack within minutes.

    Munoz earlier Thursday turned over the report to UN chief Ban Ki-moon.

    Pakistan's UN Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, who was to have addressed the press after receiving a copy of the report, canceled the press encounter and was to take the report back to Islamabad.

    The panel unwrapped the long-awaited, sensitive report after complying with Islamabad's request for a two-week delay.

    Pakistan said last week it had asked that the release, initially scheduled for March 30, be delayed so that input from Afghanistan, the United States and Saudi Arabia could be included.

    Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he had asked the UN-appointed, three-member panel to include input from former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Saudi Arabia in its report.

    He did not elaborate further on what information he wanted to be included.
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    Govt to file murder case against Musharraf: Badar

    http://thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=103829

    Updated at: 2200 PST, Wednesday, April 28, 2010

    KARACHI: Central Secretary of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Jehangir Badar has said that a case will be lodged against Pervez Musharraf by the state in the wake of UN Report on the assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto.

    He was addressing a press conference on the occasion of launching membership campaign of the party in the province. He was accompanied by PPP Sindh President and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah besides other PPP leaders here on Wednesday.

    Jehangir Badar said the assassins of Benazir Bhutto’s will not be identified on the basis of personal enmity but by acting within the parameters of justice and rule of law.

    In his remarks on the 18th amendment of the Constitution, the PPP’s senior leader said it has now become part of the Constitution and implementation on the same will soon be ensured.

    He, however, said although the concurrent list has been abolished the devolution of powers from the Federation to provinces cannot be made overnight.
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    Be nice to me if you want protection, Mush told Benazir

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/N...ow/5884482.cms

    5/2/2010

    Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf had warned Benazair Bhutto that if she wanted protection in Pakistan she should be "nice" to him, a top ex-aide of the assassinated leader has claimed.

    According to the Sunday Times report, former premier Benazir had called Musharraf, then the President of Pakistan, seeking additional security for her. "He told her, 'I warned you not to come back until after the elections,' and threatened her, 'I'll only protect you if you're nice to me,'" said Husain Haqqani, a former Bhutto aide who was living in the US and is now Pakistan's ambassador in Washington. "Instead of stepping up her security, it was reduced," he said.

    She was even told not to travel in vehicles with tinted windows, as this was against the law of the local government. She appealed to the US and British officials who had helped negotiate her return. "I called everyone" said Haqqani. "I even got the US ambassador in Pakistan, Anne Patterson, to visit her."

    "Patterson wasn't nice to her," said Bhutto's cousin Tariq Islam. "She harped on, 'You must not talk against Musharraf.' The Americans never trusted her."

    The Sunday Times wrote, "Benazir Bhutto was brought back to Pakistan from exile as part of an international deal. Then she was killed — and all traces of evidence were immediately swept away."
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    Pakistan court issues warrants over Bhutto's death
    Pakistan court issues warrants for 2 police officers accused of negligence in Bhutto's killing

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/p...bhuttos-death/

    Dec 05, 2010 05:26 EST

    A Pakistani court has issued arrest warrants for two police officials accused of failing to provide proper security for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on the day she was assassinated. They are also accused of cleaning the crime scene before evidence could be collected.

    Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali identified the men Sunday as former Rawalpindi police chief Saud Aziz and Superintendent Khurram Shahzad.

    Ali said the two could be arrested at any time. The officials could not be reached for comment.

    Bhutto was killed in 2007 just weeks after returning to the country from self-imposed exile.

    A U.N. commission in April said her assassination could have been prevented. It blamed all levels of government for failing to provide adequate security.
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    Pakistani investigators name Musharraf accused in Benazir's murder case

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    English.news.cn 2011-02-07 19:19:14

    ISLAMABAD, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Investigators Monday requested an Anti-Terrorism Court to declare former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf absconder in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, prosecutors said.

    Benazir Bhutto, the two times Prime Minister of Pakistan, was killed in firing and suicide attack in the garrison city of Rawalpindi in Dec. 2007 when Musharraf was ruling the country.

    The Musharraf government had blamed the then Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsood for Benazir's killing, a charge denied by Pakistani Taliban.

    No group has so far claimed responsibility for the killing of Benazir Bhutto.

    The investigators Monday presented a report in the court in Rawalpindi, listing Musharraf as one of the accused in the case. The documents said that Pervez Musharraf had been issuing instructions to then two senior police officers, responsible for the security of Benazir Bhutto.

    Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar told the court that Musharraf had been named as an "absconding accused" as he has shown lack of cooperation.

    A United Nation inquiry report said last year that the attack on Benazir Bhutto could be averted if tight security measures had been taken.

    The anti-terrorism court is conducting the trial of five suspects, including members of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, who have been charged with planning and facilitating the assassination. All have denied any involvement.

    A prosecutor for the FIA told the court that Musharraf had been called several times in connection with the investigation but he did not appear and he has been declared absconder.

    The prosecutor requested the court to declare Musharraf as absconder until the next hearing on Feb. 12, and if he failed to appear at the court, he should be declared proclaimed offender.

    The investigators also produced forensic report of Benazir Bhutto's BlackBerry phone, she had used on the day of her murder.

    A spokesman for Musharraf dismissed the FIA report as a politically motivated move and said it is aimed at hiding the real causes of the murder of Benazir Bhutto.

    Musharraf, who has been living in self-exile in Britain since April 2009, has said that he intended to return to Pakistan before the next general election in 2013. He formed a new party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, with an eye to the next polls.
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    Hearing of pleas for extradition, trial of Musharraf put off

    http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-2-2011_pg7_14

    Staff Report
    2/8/2011



    LAHORE: Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday deferred until February 24 the hearing of two identical petitions seeking extradition and trial of former president Pervez Musharraf on high treason charges.

    

The judge postponed the hearing until February 24 as the counsels for the petitioners and respondent did not appear before the court. 

Justice Saeed had directed the attorney general of Pakistan (AGP) to personally appear before the court on January 27.

    The petitioners, Aziz Ahmed Awan and Ghazi Illmuddin advocate, had levelled 15 allegations of different nature against Musharraf.

    

They submitted that the former military dictator had manhandled lawyers and booked several of them on false charges while they were protesting against his November 3, 2007 acts.

    They alleged that he had killed thousands of seminary students during the Jamia Hafsa operation in Islamabad, compelled nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to accept a false charge of selling nuclear technology.

    They also alleged that Musharraf had ordered killing of Nawab Muhammad Akbar Khan Bugti and was also involved in the Karsaz incident in Karachi.

    

The petitioners’ counsel submitted that Musharraf had joined the United States in its war against terror after the 9/11 without the nation’s consent and also handed over innocent citizens to it.

    Illmuddin, one of the petitioners, alleged that the retired general had also prepared a plot to kill Benazir Bhutto.

The petitioners requested the court to direct the federal government to lodge a case against Musharraf under Article 6 of the constitution.

    They also sought his extradition and issuance of red warrants against him.
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    Benazir was promised she would be PM: Forensic report

    http://www.hindustantimes.com/Benazi...e1-660228.aspx

    Indo-Asian News Service
    Islamabad, February 09, 2011
    First Published: 11:39 IST(9/2/2011)

    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 associates informed Benazir through an email that the then US secretary of state and the then head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had also given the nod.

    A team of experts of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have managed to retrieve five dozen e-mails from the two BlackBerry phones of the slain leader.

    An e-mail sent by a leading PPP leader Oct 23, 2007, to Benazir Bhutto said: "Respected Prime Minister (Benazir Bhutto), the United States confirmed that a crucial message had been sent to intelligence agencies of Pakistan, specifically not to interfere in party affairs and stay away from the electoral process. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and director-general Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) have done a secret deal for your (Benazir Bhutto) premiership."

    "Congratulations Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and warm regards.”

    The e-mails are going to provide crucial help in the probe into her unsolved killing.
    Bhutto was assassinated Dec 27, 2007, as she was leaving Liaquat Bagh in a motorcade after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi.

    A teenaged shooter was seen aiming for her head in the CCTV footage before a powerful suicide blast killed at least 24 people participating in the rally.

    The interior ministry at that time accused the Taliban of plotting to kill Bhutto while the doctors said as she was standing in her vehicle "her head banged against the lever of the sunroof of her vehicle, which caused her death".

    A few days prior to her killing, Benazir sent an email to American journalist Ron Suskind. While referring to then president Pervez Musharraf, she said that Musharraf had given an alarming message: “You (Benazir) should understand that your security is based on the state of relations between you and me (Benazir and Musharraf).”

    Benazir expressed dissatisfaction over her security in an e-mail Oct 26, 2007 sent to her advisor in Washington DC, Mark Siegel.

    She wrote: “Nothing will happen, just wanted you to know. If it does, in addition to the names in my letter to President Musharraf, I would hold Musharraf responsible. I have been made to feel insecure by his minions and there is no way what is happening in terms of stopping me from taking private security or using tinted windows of four police mobiles to cover all sides could happen without him (Musharraf).”

    Bhutto also sent an SMS message to noted interviewer Daphne Barak. In reply to an SMS message, Barak wrote: “Bibi, you are going to Pakistan. It’s a trap for you now. But you are insisting to go back.”

    The FIA's Forensics Lab has retrieved the crucial data from the BlackBerry phones. Nearly 400 hundred contact numbers have been saved.

    FIA's latest investigation report, compiled by head of investigation team Khalid Qureshi, said: “Musharraf was equally responsible for facilitation and abetment of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto through his government and justified failure in providing her the requisite security protection that her status demanded twice. There was a security lapse.”

    Former president Pervez Musharraf's name was Monday included in the list of accused in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case.

    Musharraf's name was added to the list following a statement of former Rawalpindi city police chief Saud Aziz.

    Aziz claimed that Musharraf had given the order to change Benazir's security in-charge. He also claimed that the murder scene was immediately washed on Musharraf's orders.

    Musharraf ruled Pakistan for nine years after taking power in a bloodless coup in 1999. He stepped down in 2008 and left Pakistan. He now lives in London.

    In December last year, Pervez Musharraf was sent a questionnaire by the interior ministry regarding Bhutto's assassination during his presidency.
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    Warrant For Musharraf Over Bhutto Murder

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wor..._Assassination

    11:38am UK, Saturday February 12, 2011

    A court in Pakistan has issued an arrest warrant for London-based former president Pervez Musharraf over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

    Pervez Musharraf is farewelled by the Pakistan army

    Pervez Musharraf is not expected to comply with the court's ruling

    Pakistani Television says anti-terrorism court judge Rana Nisar Ahmad issued the warrant and ordered Mr Musharraf to appear before the court on February 19.

    Mr Musharraf's spokesman Saif Ali Khan has said the former president will not comply with the request.

    Ms Bhutto was killed on December 27, 2007, in a gun and suicide bomb attack as she was travelling in a car while campaigning in Rawalpindi for forthcoming elections.

    Her death, which came just weeks after she had returned to her home country following eight years of self-imposed exile, sparked international outrage.

    Many of Ms Bhutto's supporters accused former military leader Mr Musharraf - who was president at the time - of not doing enough to ensure her protection.

    He left Pakistan for London more than two years ago.

    Last April a UN report said that Pakistan intentionally failed to investigate Ms Bhutto's assassination properly, and hampered a United Nations inquiry.

    "While she died when a 15-and-a-half-year-old suicide bomber detonated his explosives near her vehicle, no one believes that this boy acted alone," the report said.

    "The commission was mystified by the efforts of certain high-ranking Pakistani government authorities to obstruct access to military and intelligence sources."

    The report said Mr Musharraf was aware of and tracking the many threats against Ms Bhutto.

    But his government "did little more than pass on those threats to her and to provincial authorities", it said.

    Ms Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, is the current president of Pakistan.
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    Pakistan Issues Arrest Warrant for Musharraf

    http://www.voanews.com/english/news/...116077289.html

    2/11/2011

    Pakistani officials say an anti-terrorism court has issued an arrest warrant for former President Pervez Musharraf in connection with the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

    Authorities say Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad issued the warrant Saturday, ordering Mr. Musharraf to appear in court on February 19.

    Mr. Musharraf has been in exile in London for more than two years.

    Ms. Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and suicide bomb attack on December 27, 2007, while campaigning in the city of Rawalpindi. Ms. Bhutto was running as leader of the opposition Pakistan People's Party in national elections.

    Her widower, Ali Zardari, led the Pakistan People's Party to victory, and is now president.
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