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Musharraf not ready to talk to UN commission
Saturday, November 07, 2009
By Mazhar Tufail
ISLAMABAD: Former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf is ready to meet the UN investigators probing the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto but will not record any statement because he believes any outside agency has no legal ground to question him, his lawyer told The News here on Friday.
“The UN commission probing Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has not approached Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf and instead it has written a letter to this effect to the Pakistan government, so the former president is not responsible for responding to the communication,” Chaudhry Fawad, advocate, said.
“The UN commission wrote a letter to the Pakistan government, which ought to respond to it. Whenever the UN investigators will approach the former president, he will respond to them. He has no objection to meeting the UN commission but will not record his statement because a probe by any agency or organisation from outside Pakistan puts a question mark on the credibility of Pakistani investigation agencies,” he added.
The lawyer quoted Musharraf as saying that the people who were involved in attempts on his life were involved in the assassination of the slain PPP chairperson. “Foolproof security arrangements were in place and had Benazir Bhutto not stood up in the vehicle, she would have not been killed,” he quoted the former president as saying.
Chaudhry Fawad said Musharraf was of the view that Benazir Bhutto was informed about the threat to her life and she was asked not to return to Pakistan before elections. “She [Benazir Bhutto] was informed about the security threat but she did not take effective precautionary measures,” he quoted Musharraf as saying.
When asked about the possibility of Musharraf’s comeback and jumping into the political arena, Chaudhry Fawad said he was unaware of the political ambitions of the former president because his discussions with him were limited to legal issues only.
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