Pakistan People's Party has demanded that an investigation into her killing be based on the letter she had written to President Pervez Musharraf before her return from exile.
ISLAMABAD: Slain former premier Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party has demanded that an investigation into her killing be based on the letter she had written to President Pervez Musharraf before her return from exile.
In the October 16 letter, Bhutto had named several people she believed were involved in an alleged plot to kill her.
"It (the letter) was a dying declaration," PPP leader Latif Khosa told the Dawn newspaper.
Khosa said former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi, former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Intelligence Bureau chief Ijaz Shah and former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Hameed Gul should be named in the FIR on the basis of that letter.
He said police should have allowed PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim or Naheed Khan, political secretary to Bhutto, to lodge an FIR in connection with her assassination.
Police had washed the site at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi where Bhutto was attacked in order to erase evidence which would have led to the killers, alleged Khosa, a top lawyer.
Khosa said when the whole world has seen the assassin shooting Bhutto with a handgun, the government was busy selling its "skewed stories".
The government is trying to convince people that she had hit her head against the lever of her vehicle's sunroof after the suicide attacker detonated his explosives, he said.
He also pointed out that none of the investigators had approached witnesses for a first-hand account of the incident.
Khosa said the investigation into the October 19 suicide attacks on Bhutto's rally in Karachi should also have been carried out on the basis of her letter written to the President.
Bhutto had written another letter to the interior secretary on October 26, seeking foolproof security arrangements, he said.
A copy of the letter was sent to Musharraf, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court and the United Nations.
Khosa said the PPP did not expect the government to conduct a clean and impartial investigation. Referring to the statement of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton demanding an international probe into the assassination, he said this was imperative.
Former Supreme Court Bar Association president Hamid Khan said Benazir's letter carried "great significance" because it was almost as important as a "dying statement".
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