Before the assassination: ‘Benazir was about to reveal Musharraf’s rigging plan’
As the political battle for Punjab heats up, Governor Latif Khosa appears to have joined the ranks of PPP leaders who have been lashing out at their party’s political opponents, alleging on Monday, for instance, that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto had been hours away from revealing former president Pervez Musharraf’s plan to rig the 2008 elections on the day she was assassinated.
“A PPP special committee had compiled a 600-page dossier to disclose Musharraf’s plan of marginalising the PPP’s mandate through rigging. The committee was scheduled to meet and present the report to visiting US senators but Benazir Bhutto was assassinated that very day,” said Khosa while inaugurating a National Registration and Database Authority (Nadra) registration centre in Chakwal district.
Khosa, who claims to have been on that committee, said that the dossier was available on the PPP website. The Express Tribune however, was not able to find any such dossier on the PPP’s official website, www.ppp.org.pk.
Khosa lambasted Punjab’s ruling PML-N for trying to launch a movement to topple the PPP-led government.
“They are afraid of the PPP’s success in the upcoming elections,” said Khosa, in what appears to be a reference to the March 2012 Senate elections where the PPP is expected to win at least a strong plurality if not an outright majority in the upper chamber of parliament.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 18th, 2011.
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@sick of this nonsense: Agreed but Zardari said he knows who the murderer was. So either it was him or known to him . What do you suggest now.
show some respect. She was the greatest lady this country ever produced. She stood up to not one but two dictators, the mulla mess created by Zia ul haq and a many political rivals with grace and dignity. We DEMAND her murders stand trial before court of law.
Now she is dead, you can say she was going to reveal the time of doomsday as well, she is not there to deny.
You guys may as well get used to it. This is probably going to take on the form of Pakistan's version of the JFK assassination.
That's why PPP has won the Elections, due to rigging plan of General Musharraf?
Agree with Bashir. Redicolous.
You have presented a guard of honor to him. And now you say, after 4 years, that she was going to disclose that Election 2008 would be rigged. That is ridicolous.
LOL!! Whats the point of disclosing it after so many yearz!! And why didnt anyone else disclose that plan after the death of benazir! These people just talk senseless and irrelevant, instead of solving the real issues and problems of the public!
utterly riudicoulsy, you have let her murderes go scott free , yet we the public have to suffer every 18th and 27th, why dont you for once come clean rather than cocked up stores year after year.
Just in time! Mr Khos waited for 4 years to make this sensational revelation. I wonder what is in store at the 8th and 12th anniversaries?