ISLAMABAD:
The security officer of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has told an anti-terrorism court that the director general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in 2007 had advised her hours before her assassination not to attend the public meeting at Liaquat Bagh, according to sources.
Recording his statement recently before the ATC in Rawalpindi, then senior superintendent of police, retired Major Imtiaz Hussain, said ISI director general Lt Gen Nadeem Taj and Maj Gen Ehsan met Ms Bhutto on the night between Dec 26 and 27, 2007, to discuss her security.
He said Lt Gen Taj and Maj Gen Ehsan tried to persuade Ms Bhutto not to address the Liaquat Bagh rally.
“The former prime minister had told me that intelligence agencies, the ISI chief and Maj Gen Ehsan had informed her about the security threat to her life,” he said.