SP Ashfaq Anwer becomes approver in Benazir murder case

SP Ashfaq Anwer has become approver in Benazir assassination case. According to FIA sources, Ashfaq has held responsible three officers including CPO Saood Aziz. Punjab government had constituted a joint investigation team for the investigation of Benazir murder. According to FIA sources, SP Ashfaq Anwer had recorded statements of Clause 164 in the court of Magistrate Farrukh Nadim Malik in Islamabad one month ago. Ashfaq Anwer said that he was deployed for the security of Benazir Bhutto but CPO Saood forcefully sent me to Koraal chowk and then asked me to reach in the rally of Nawaz Sharif in Sadiq Abad. He further said that SSP Operation Yasin Farooq deliberately avoided checking the security while SP Khurram Ishtiaq, on the direction of CPO Saood, ordered Rescue 1122 the hosing down of the site of Benazir Bhuttos assassination and SHO Kashif Riaz of Rawalpindi police station rejected post mortem of the dead body. According to FIA sources, Additional IG Punjab Ch. Abdul Hameed and Home Secretary Punjab Khusru Pervaiz have been freed in the investigation and their names have been excluded from ECL. The hearing of Benazir Bhutto assassination case was adjourned till next week as the Anti-terrorism court judge was on leave. The special investigation team of FIA had to submit final challan of the case in the court today.