Benazir murder case will remain unresolved: Heraldo Munoz
Establishing the rule of law is going to take somewhat longer, Heraldo Muñoz said.
(Web Desk) - In his forthcoming book, Getting Away With Murder, the man who led the UN investigation in Benazir Bhutto s assassination, Heraldo Muñoz, described that the Musharraf government facilitated the crime through its negligence.
He said that Tehreek-e-Taliban executed the attack, possibly backed or at least encouraged by elements of the establishment.
Heraldo Muñoz also stated that local senior policemen attempted a cover-up whereas Bhutto’s lead security team failed to properly safeguard her.
He described that the outgoing army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, expressed doubts to him about the claim by former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf that Bhutto had been assassinated by the Pakistani Taliban.
Most Pakistani political actors would rather turn the page than continue investigating who was behind Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, he added.
The author described that Bhutto’s assassination will be another unsolved case in the long history of impunity in Pakistan, and that the controversy surrounding her assassination will endure as much as her memory.
On Tuesday, an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi indicted former president Pervez Musharraf on murder charges in connection with the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
The decision by a court in Rawalpindi marks the first time Musharraf, or any former army chief in Pakistan, has been charged with a crime.
Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup and stepped down from office in disgrace nearly a decade later, now faces a litany of legal problems.
Benazir Bhutto was killed in 2007 during a gun and bomb attack at a rally in the city of Rawalpindi, the sister city to the capital of Islamabad.
She was respected by many Pakistanis for her condemnation of militancy and support for the poor. But her premiership was marred by accusations of widespread corruption.
Her assassination set off protests across the country and helped propel her party to power in parliament and her husband to the presidency.
Bhutto s supporters also say Musharraf ignored requests for additional security, and a 2010 U.N. report on her death said he failed to make serious efforts to ensure Bhutto s safety.
