‘Osama shifted to Afghanistan to supervise plot to assassinate Bhutto’

Musharraf killed my mother,” Bilawal
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has held former military dictator Pervez Musharraf personally responsible for the murder of his mother, Benazir Bhutto, as the country observed her 10th death anniversary on Wednesday.
Bhutto, the PPP chief and a two-time Prime Minister, was killed along with 21 persons in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh during an election campaign rally on December 27, 2007.
In an interview to the BBC, Bilawal Bhutto said: “Musharraf exploited this entire situation to assassinate my mother. He purposely sabotaged her security so that she would be assassinated and taken off the scene.” He said that he doesn’t hold the man who fired the bullet at his late mother responsible for her murder.
Bilawal said Musharraf, who is in self-imposed exile in Dubai, had directly threatened Bhutto and told her that her security was based on the state of relationship with him. He claimed that on the day of her assassination, the security cordon was taken off from her by the former military ruler. The PPP chairman said he personally holds the former President responsible for the murder and as he doesn’t have any details of him giving directions on a call or holding a meeting to convey any secret message, he will not unnecessarily blame any state institution.
The anti-terrorism court in its judgment on August 31 had declared Musharraf an absconder in the assassination case and acquitted five alleged operatives of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan — Rafaqat Hussain, Husnain Gul, Sher Zaman, Aitzaz Shah and Abdul Rashid — due to lack of evidence. Two police officers were jailed for 17 years each for negligence vis-a-vis Bhutto’s security. The court also ordered confiscation of Musharraf’s assets.