All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Information Secretary Aasia Ishaq has strongly reacted to the allegations levelled by Bilawal Zardari and Asifa Zardari against former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf, and advised the youngsters to question their own uncle, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, why he had appointed a person in his cabinet as senior minister who had been nominated by their slain mother as her killer.
“Both the youngsters should question their own prime minister why had he inducted former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi as senior minister in his cabinet. Moreover, they should also enquire as to how the then chief security officer of their mother had now become the interior minister of the country,” she said.
In a statement issued on Friday, the APML secretary reminded that the provision of security to Benazir Bhutto was the responsibility of the local and provincial governments, and that the president of the country did not figure anywhere in this regard.
“If Pervez Musharraf is being blamed only for the fact that he was the president of the country when Benazir Bhutto was killed, then Benazir Bhutto should be blamed for the killing of their (Bilawal and Asifa’s) uncle Mir Murtaza Bhutto, as she was the then prime minister of the country,” Aasia argued.
She further said that when another “uncle” of Bilawal and Asifa, Salmaan Taseer, was gunned down in the federal capital, their own father, Asif Zardari, should be blamed because he held the president’s office at that time.