By DPA
Islamabad : A letter from the grave from assassinated Pakistan leader Benazir Bhutto will be released Sunday as her senior aides gather to decide whether to participate in scheduled elections meant to end eight years of military rule.
Senior leaders from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) were scheduled to gather at Bhutto’s ancestral home in the southern province of Sindh Sunday afternoon for the reading of instructions from the pro-democracy icon to be opened in the event of her death.
The instructions, according to local media reports, outline Bhutto’s wishes for the future of the PPP, the country’s largest political party, including about her successor as party leader. The instructions were scheduled to be read out around 5 p.m. local time (1200 GMT) by her husband Asif Ali Zardari.
Party official were also expected to decide whether to join a boycott of the national elections, earlier scheduled Jan 8 but now likely to be postponed due to widespread violence and turmoil that has engulfed Pakistan.
A third bout of overnight violence across Sindh sparked by Bhutto’s death from a suicide attacker on Thursday at a campaign rally in the city of Rawalpindi has brought the death toll to at least 40 dead, and thousands of vehicles, government buildings, banks and shops have been destroyed.
Bhutto’s supporters are accusing President Pervez Musharraf’s military-backed government of carrying out the murder, and have rejected official explanation that Taliban militants linked to Al Qaeda did the hit.