Bhutto killed after Pervez consent: Pak UK envoy

Lahore, Dec. 26: Holding the former president, Mr Pervez Musharraf, responsible for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Pakistan’s high commissioner to Britain, Mr Wajid Shamsul Hassan, has said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud could not have proceeded with plans of assassinating Bhutto without Mr Musharraf’s nod.

A private television channel reported Mr Hassan as saying that if Benazir would have been alive, trouble for Mr Musharraf would have doubled.

“Had Benazir been alive, Musharraf would have been facing legal action for murdering former Balochistan governor Nawab Akbar Bugti, and removing the chief justice of Pakistan,” the Daily Times quoted Mr Hassan, as saying.

Mr Hassan said Mr Musharraf had offered a much “bigger” amnesty under the National Reconciliation Ordinance to the PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif which allowed him to leave the country easily following the military coup in 1998.

Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack on December 27, 2007 as she left a political rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi adjacent to federal capital Islamabad.