Musharraf, Haqqania seminary denies any role in BB's assassination
22 February, 2012
LONDON: Reacting to the interior minister's briefing in the Sindh Assembly on Benazir Bhutto case, former president Pervez Musharraf strongly denied his involvement in the assassination of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) former chairperson Benazir Bhutto, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.
Talking to the media, Musharraf said that he had informed BB about the threats to her life before the first attack. "I was not in contact with the slain PPP chairperson after October 18," he said, adding that it was not his duty to provide security to BB.
"The United Nations' report on Benazir's killing is baseless," he said.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Darul Uloom Haqqania on Tuesday rejected the interior minister's briefing on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and said that implicating the seminary in the murder of the former prime minister was in fact an attempt to hide her real killers.
Maulana Syed Yousaf Shah said that Benazir Bhutto had been a seasoned politician and intellectual of the international level, and such allegations were part of the international propaganda aimed at linking religious seminaries with terrorism. He went on to stipulate that the names of students mentioned in the report had never enjoyed any with link with the seminary.
The spokesman proceeded to affirm that Rehman Malik's report on the murder of Benazir Bhutto had many disparities in it. "The government has given us the names and we checked them, but did not find any record of the persons," he added. He said the authorities had failed to arrest the real assassins who Benazir Bhutto had herself accused while she was alive.
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