“Benazir Bhutto had contacted Baitullah Mehsud through Saleh Shah (a former senator from South Waziristan) before her return from self-exile to confirm the reports if he (Mehsud) wanted to have her killed. Now, what propels them to claim the responsibility of the murder after a decade, this is a big question,” Mir went on to say. “You can judge the authenticity of the book and the claim from the fact that the TTP founder Baitullah Mehsud had time and again denied his or his group’s involvement in Benazir’s murder. Pervez Musharraf, who is currently facing trial for his alleged involvement in Bhutto’s assassination. He contended that the Taliban’s so-called claim directly benefits the former military ruler Gen. “To me, the claim regarding assassination of Benazir Bhutto is just an attempt to mislead the courts and investigations,” Mir, who is the last journalist to reportedly interview the slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin laden in Afghanistan in 2001, said. The sentences were later suspended by a high court. However, the court sentenced two senior police officers to 17-year each jail term for their failure to provide required security to the former premier.
I seriously doubt it”, Hamid Mir, an Islamabad-based senior journalist told Anadolu Agency.Īn anti-terrorism court late last year had acquitted five suspected Taliban members charged with Bhutto’s murder after prosecution failed to provide cogent proofs against them. One of the bombers Bilal, the book further read, first fired at Bhutto and then blew himself up near her vehicle, whereas another would-be suicide bomber, Ikram managed to escape and is still alive. The book, which allegedly published from Afghanistan, read two suicide bombers, had targeted the two-time premier minutes after she addressed a public rally in garrison city of Rawalpindi in December 2007. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has not so far confirmed or denied whether the book was actually written by its leader. The book, titled Inqilab Mehsud South Waziristan - From British Raj to American Imperialism, claimed responsibility for the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto apart from depicting the militant network’s so-called “struggle” against the United States and its allies, including Pakistan. Local experts appear to be wary about the authenticity of a recently published book claimed to be written by a purported senior member of Pakistani Taliban Abu Mansoor Asim Mufti Noor Wali.
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