PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY GREATER LONDON
SHAHEED MOHTARAMA BENAZIR BHUTTO 
      

 

 NOTE: Baitullah Mehsud Says Pervez Musharraf is the Real Killer of
Benazir Bhutto.

Baitullah Denies Hand in Benazir's Assassination
 
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, 30 December 2007 (The News) - Commander Baitullah Mehsud, accused of masterminding the attack that killed former Prime Minister and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi, has rejected the allegations as baseless.

"We are equally grieved by the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto and
extend our sympathies to her family and party workers in this hour of
grief," said Mr. Omar, a spokesman for Baitullah Mehsud and his
Tehreek-e-Pakistan [Pakistan Movement], a conglomerate of all the
[Pashtun] organisations operating in tribal areas as well as the
settled districts of the NWFP.

Baitullah Mehsud, Ameer or central leader of the recently-formed
Tehreek-e-Pakistan, was accused by the Interior Ministry Spokesman
Brig. (retd.) Javed Iqbal Cheema of sending the bomber near the
vehicle of Benazir Bhutto outside the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.

Mr. Omar, who made a call to The News from an undisclosed location, on
Saturday said Baitullah Mehsud, while sensing the gravity of the
allegations levelled against him, convened an emergency meeting of
Tehreek-e-Pakistan [Council] comprising senior commanders at a secret
place somewhere between South and North Waziristan tribal region to
clarify his position.

"Why on earth would we kill her [Benazir Bhutto]? We had no enmity
with her and more importantly she had done no wrong to us," Mr. Omar
said while quoting Baitullah Mehsud as telling the [Council] meeting.

He said that it was against the teachings of Islam and Shariah, as
well as the centuries old rich traditions of the tribal people, not to
harm a woman and added that the [illegal Pervez Musharraf] government
allegations against the commander were part of face-saving moves it
had resorted to ever since the incident took place.

"By blaming us for the murder of an important political leader like
Benazir Bhutto, the government is in fact misguiding the world.
Planning such actions is simply beyond our imagination," he claimed.

"We want to assure the Pakistan People's Party [PPP] leaders and its
workers that we can't even think of killing their leader. We are with
them in this hour of grief and sorrow," claimed the spokesman.

He alleged that the [unlawful Musharraf] government was attempting to
portray the tribal areas as centers of "terrorists" so as to earn
dollars from, what he termed as, Western masters. "This is why they
keep the tribal belt in continuous grip of violence."

Accusing the [Pakistan Army's] secret agencies for the crime, he said
the modus operandi and precision of the strike revealed that the
gruesome act was committed by professional hands.

It may be recalled here that Baitullah Mehsud was also [maliciously
and illegally] accused of threatening Benazir Bhutto with "suicide
attacks" - [by the Musharraf government-controlled Daily Times toilet
paper of Najam Sethi (venal Editor) and corrupt Salman Taseer
(Publisher and illegal Minister for Industries, Production and Special
Initiatives in the unlawful Caretaker Cabinet of Tyrant Musharraf and
illegal Crime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro)] upon her arrival in
[Karachi] Pakistan [on 18 October 2007] - that he later denied.

The commander at that time said he had never thought of such an attack
as he knew that it would kill innocent people.

Mr. Omar said they had time and again disowned the statement
attributed to Baitullah Mehsud regarding the "suicide attacks" on
Benazir Bhutto upon her return from abroad, but lamented that certain
people conveniently ignored the same to promote their interests.

 

 

 

 

 

AGHA TANVEER IQBAL

SECRETARY INFORMATION  PPP GREATER LONDON