Pakistan to proceed against Musharraf over Bhutto murder

The core group of PPP on Saturday accepting the UN Report recommended to the Prime Minister to take appropriate legal actions in the light of the UN Inquiry Commission report on assassination of  ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.

The UN report released on April 15, inter alia, calls upon the competent authorities in Pakistan to make a determination of the criminal responsibility for planning and carrying out the assassination.

The meeting presided over by Party's Co-Chairman President Asif Ali Zardari considered the UN report and recommended to the Prime Minister to take appropriate legal action against those Government officials mentioned in the UN Report.

A meeting of the core group of PPP was held in the Presidency to discuss the report of the UN Inquiry Commission on the assassination of  Bhutto.

Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that the meeting reiterated that the Report has endorsed the Party position that General (Retired) Pervez Musharraf was responsible for the assassination of Bhutto.

It recalled that Bhutto also believed that Musharraf wanted to eliminate her. She had mentioned it in her letter and in numerous press and public statements.

The Party reiterated its resolve to expose and bring to justice all those including Musharraf who planned, abetted and indulged in the criminal act, screened off the offenders and destroyed the evidence, he said.