Benazir’s assassination: Mirza holds Malik responsible for faulty investigation

Says Asif Zardari runs the PPP and Sindh as a business enterprise

KARACHI/ BADIN: Former Sindh home minister and Pakistan Peoples Party leader Zulfikar Mirza has held former interior minister Rehman Malik responsible for faulty of investigation into late PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.

Talking to Express News on Wednesday, Mirza said the case should be reinvestigated. “And the PPP leaders, Rehman Malik and Babar Awan, should be included in the probe to find out why they ran away from the crime scene,” he said.

“Rehman Malik also put the earlier investigation on the wrong track,” he added.

He said the PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is the real leader of the party. “However, he is offended by the party leaders, who win votes using Shaheed Bhutto’s name and then fill their personal bank accounts,” he said.

He said many leaders did not want Bilawal to remain in Pakistan, and said that he will try to meet the PPP chairperson in London

Mirza also lambasted PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and said he was running the province like a business enterprise. “The only thing dear to Asif Ali Zardai is his business. He starts weaving plans to take over everything and every profitable business which attracts his fancy,” he said.

He said Benazir had not sacrificed her blood to make some people billionaires.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12^th, 2015.