Mumtaz Bhutto says Zardari harbouring Bhutto, Benazir’s killers

LONDON: Chief of the Bhutto clan and leader of Sindh National Front (SNF) Mumtaz Bhutto has charged that her niece and slain Pakistan People’s Party leader Benazir Bhutto would be in agony today at seeing the systematic dismantling of her party’s ideology by the people who succeeded her.
Speaking to Geo News in London, Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto said he found Sharif brothers very courteous and hospitable and he said he will extend moral support to them as both quarters agreed on the need of a “new social contract for Pakistan”.
Bhutto hit out at the recently formed PPP and PML-Q alliance and said the two sides had come together not to promote any national interest or the so-called national reconciliation but to be partners in the “loot, plunder and stealth of the national wealth”.
“They have come together on a one point agenda of corruption and plunder. There is nothing else to this alliance of the opportunists, devoid of any political ideology.” He said it was tragic that the great legacy and name of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was being used by those people who were actually involved in the former prime minister’s elimination at the hands of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
“Those who celebrated Bhutto’s death have today become the custodians of his legacy for opportunistic reasons. The PPP ideology is dead; the party has been taken over by bandits. It’s harbouring the known killers of Bhuttos, the remnants of Ziaul Haq and Pervez Musharraf,” charged Bhutto.
He said the killing of Osama bin Laden and the ensuing embarrassment had jolted the whole nation, but the government’s stunned silence and inability to put together a response brought further humiliation.
“The prime minister should have been in the country to answer the question of skeptics, but he chose to be in France. The president remained stuck in his bunker and left the nation open to the jokes and ridicule of the world,” said Bhutto, adding that today’s PPP was in direct contrast to the leadership shown by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the 1965 war against India.