Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Wednesday branded former President Pervez Musharraf as the “killer” of his mother Benazir Bhutto as the country observed her 10th death anniversary.
Reiterating that he holds the man who pulled her security rather than the man who pulled the trigger responsible for his mother’s death, Bilawal Bhutto raised the “Musharraf’s a murderer!” slogan in front of the charged crowd of PPP supporters in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Dawn online reported.
Bhutto, the PPP chief and a two-time Prime Minister, was killed along with 21 people in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaqat Bagh during an election rally on December 27, 2007.
Earlier, Bilawal Bhutto told the BBC in an interview that crucial details about the assassination of his mother were being held back in order to protect the former army chief. He said, “Musharraf exploited this entire situation to assassinate my mother.
He purposely sabotaged her security so that she would be assassinated and taken off the scene.”
Bilawal Bhutto said that Musharraf, who is in self-imposed exile in Dubai, had directly threatened Bhutto and told her that her security was based on the state of her relationship with him.