A former leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and close aide of Benazir Bhutto, Naheed Khan, said that former president Asif Ali Zardari wasn’t interested in the murder inquiry of Benazir.
Speaking to BBC Urdu, Naheed Khan said that Asif Ali Zardari, who became president after the murder of his wife, didn’t investigate the case despite all the agencies were working under him. Despite being a witness, I was not summoned by any court, she said.
The former PPP leader said that there were many unanswered questions which, if answered will prolong the matter. She said that it is the responsibility of the PPP to find out murderers of its leader, adding that this is not the real PPP rather it is Zardari league.
Remember the day of December 27, 2007, she said that she was present with her husband inside the vehicle of Benazir Bhutto, and added that she had also asked BB not to come out of the car but to no avail. But according to a testimony of a driver of Zardari House, Naheed Khan asked Benazir’s servant to open the hatch of the car so BB could wave at the crowd.
Narrating an incident of December 23, Naheed Khan said she travelled to Garhi Khuda Baksh with BB and visited the graveyard of Bhutto family.
“BB went to the graves of other family members before his brothers and father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. In a reply to a common sentence that Bhutto family has average age of 50 years, BB said she is 54 now. She stopped at an empty place where she is buried now, saying Naheed one day I have to come here.”
Replying to a query she said that if some other party had come into power after the murder that might have done better investigation as compared to the PPP.