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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Musharraf, PPP leaders included in BB murder probe* PPP core committee decides Rehman Malik, Awan, Naheed, others will be questioned
* Findings to be announced in a month
* Malik says ‘some more people’ will be questioned before fact-finding committee files report with PMDaily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Former president Pervez Musharraf, Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Law Minister Babar Awan and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Naheed Khan will be included in the investigation into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a core committee meeting of the PPP decided late on Monday.
A private TV channel reported that during the meeting in Islamabad – presided over by President Asif Ali Zardari – it was decided that Musharraf would also be questioned in the probe. The findings of the investigation would be announced in a month.
The PPP meeting also decided that all leaders who were in cars around Benazir and those in the former prime minister’s vehicle would be included in the investigation – “whether they belong to the PPP or not”, said the channel.
Briefing journalists after the meeting, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said Interior Minister Rehman Malik briefed the committee on the progress made so far by the three-member fact-finding committee looking into the hosing down of the site of Benazir’s assassination. He said the committee would question “some more people” before filing its report with the prime minister. He said the core committee of the ruling party had reaffirmed its resolve to pursue investigations in the light of the UN report to “expose all elements involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Benazir Bhutto”.
The fact-finding committee was constituted last week by the prime minister following the release of a UN report on the assassination.
Babar said Water and Power Minister Raja Pervaz Ashraf briefed the meeting on the “overall energy situation” in the country after the recent announcement of the energy conservation plan. He also briefed the committee on the steps being taken to meet consumer demand for power and regulate supply. He said the provinces were fully cooperating in the regulation of power supply, and told the committee about the progress made in ongoing energy projects in the country.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk