The son of slain Pakistain leader 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...
said on Thursday that ex-military ruler Pervez Musharaf "murdered my mother," as he vowed to play a bigger political role in his homeland "in any way I can."
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of current President
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... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
, said Musharaf sabotaged his mother's security when she returned to her homeland in 2007, and said he is confident of his own security in Pakistain.
"I'm confident that the Pak government will provide me with the adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistain," he told CNN in an interview.
The 23-year-old, who returned to Pakistain last year after studying at Oxford, said her liquidation was due to a combination of thugs, and Musharraf's regime.
"Al Qaeda issued the instructions to do it, the Taliban... carried out the actual attack, while Pervez Musharaf purposely sabotaged my mother's security when he knew there was going to be attacks, so she would be eliminated.
"He murdered my mother. I hold him responsible for the murder of my mother," he added. "He'd threatened her himself in the past. He said: 'Your security is directly linked to our relationship and our cooperation.'
"When he imposed emergency, and it was clear that he was pulling the wool over our eyes. He was not interested in returning democracy to Pakistain. And my mother started to speak out more against him, the security decreased."