Rehman Malik said that the government would ask Interpol to arrest ex-President Pervez Musharraf while briefing the Sindh Assembly about the Benazir Bhutto’s murder plot. Malik said the government would seek Musharraf’s arrest because he allegedly failed to provide adequate security to Benazir Bhutto.
Benazir Bhutto is a huge name and a sorely missed leader and it is true that the face of Pakistan would have been very different if she would have assumed power. That being said, such allegations from responsible people without proper proof are very dangerous for Pakistan’s image. The present government has always been hostile towards Musharraf even though their leader Benazir Bhutto made the NRO deal and then came back to Pakistan. It is also a fact that Musharraf did warn her and that BB and her advisors preferred to have their own security arrangements manned by a special PPP force.
No government in Pakistan has ever been successful in solving assassination cases. And why involve Interpol? The cause of the plane crash carrying Zia-ul-haq is still a mystery. We haven’t been able to solve our first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan’s assassination yet.
Why doesn’t our interior minister pay same attention to the cases of hundreds of people who are murdered every month in Pakistan? In January alone, a total of 165 people were killed or murdered in Karachi, according to a report released by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. It has been 4 years since Benazir’s assassination and the PPP has been in power. Her husband is the President but the case has remained unsolved until now.
MASOOMA IMRAN
Karachi