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Benazir murder trial
[Dawn] THE post-death conspiracy is no less painful. Everyone has chipped in to ensure that the killers of Benazir Bhutto... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... have remained practically untried five years after her liquidation. The government has juggled with challans and suspects. No less than five trial judges have heard the case. Defence lawyers have been too busy in other work and their cause has been helped by the prosecution itself seeking adjournments. Amid all this, the PPP government has been subjected to criticism over its inability to deliver on its promise of bringing Ms Bhutto's murderers to justice. Its efforts to find the killers have certainly been sluggish. The party's current minders have been too keen promoting the grand ideal of democracy to focus fully on the murder case. Instead, the party has been exploring the political mileage to be gained from the contrast between not trying Ms Bhutto's murderers and a 'trial of her grave' -- a reference to the reopening of the Swiss cases. In his speech on the fifth death anniversary of Ms Bhutto, PPP chairman Bilawal BabyBhutto Zardari Posted by: Fred 2012-12-29 |
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