The lawyer for a suspect arrested in connection with a deadly attack on a rally for Benazir Bhutto on Oct 18, 2007, said on Sunday that he would try to halt sales of her memoir, because he believed it wrongly implicated his client in a plot to kill her.Attorney Hashmat Habib also said that he would seek $200 million in damages from Benazir’s publisher, printer, and estate, because his client, Qari Saifullah Akhtar, was arrested after the February release of her book. “Sales of the book should be stopped, and the assertion made against my client should be deleted,” Habib told reporters in the capital, Islamabad. “Because of this assertion, my client has been deprived of his liberty.”
Habib said he would file preliminary paperwork in the coming days for lawsuits against BenazirÂ’s widower Asif Ali Zardari, as well against her publisher, printer, and bookseller. Calls to ZardariÂ’s spokesman about the issue were not returned.