Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sh Azmat Saeed Monday called for reply till January 12 from federal government on a plea for directions to Interior Minister Rehman Malik to disclose names of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s killers. After hearing arguments the CJ handed over a copy of the petition to a federal law officer, ordering him to take reply from the federal government and file it file in court by January 12. The court was hearing the petition filed by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Lovers Council through its Chief Organiser Advocate Rana Ilamudin Ghazi. The petitioner had named federal government and Interior Ministry in the case. The petitioner-counsel referring to a newspaper report submitted that Interior Minister Rehman Malik had claimed that he knew who had killed Benazir but had not disclosed the names in the last four years. He pleaded that the court should issue directions to the interior minister to disclose the names of the killers. However, a federal law officer told the court that the assassins had been arrested and their trial was also in progress, to which the petitioner-counsel questioned why the interior minister had claimed that he knew who the assassins were.
