Khaleda ZiaThree-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
Rs 50 million, the BNP yesterday claimed to have a copy of Durrani's statement, which "does not contain Khaleda's name".
Talking to news hounds at the party headquarters in the capital, BNP's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, "I have the affidavit copy with the full list of those who were named by Durrani. It does not contain names of any individuals outside Pakistain."
He also alleged that an Indian journalist had spread the "rumour that was not even covered by any Pakistain newspaper".
The BNP leader, however, did not specify the time when the statement was made. Durrani has made more than one statement in the court in a petition that alleges ISI rigged the 1990 general elections in Pakistain. The latest came on Wednesday, according to reports.
A March 14 report in Pak newspaper The Express Tribune says the statement Durrani made in 1999 is still a classified document.
According to media reports, names of the BNP and its chief cropped up during hearing on the petition over ISI's funding for politicians both "within and outside Pakistain". The intelligence agency had allegedly given the money to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party for the 1991 parliamentary polls.