By IANS
New Delhi : The security and defence establishment in Pakistan are to blame for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, said senior Pakistani journalist Aroosa Alam Thursday.
“It is a political assassination. It cannot be the Taliban behind her killing as is being projected. It is a major conspiracy,” Aroosa Alam, who is visiting India these days, told IANS.
Alam said that top people in Pakistan’s ruling establishment could be behind Bhutto’s killing in Rawalpindi.
“After the blast in Karachi on her arrival (in which over 150 people were killed in a bomb attack Oct 18), she had named five top people – including the intelligence chief and chief ministers of two provinces. She had named them as being behind the attack on her and expressed fear to her life from them,” Alam said.
Bhutto had also written a letter to Pakistan President Pervez Mushharaf in this connection naming these people for being a threat to her life.
Alam wondered how a human bomb could reach near her motorcade along with a gunman who fired at her from close range when a three-tier security cordon was around her at all times.
“No one, not even journalists could go near her as her security was reviewed after the Karachi blast. That her assassins could reach right up to her shows the connivance of the establishment,” Alam said.