Bhutto says Taliban, Al-Qaeda had sent suicide squads

By NNN-PTI

Karachi : Former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto late Friday said four suicide squads had been sent by Taliban and al-Qaeda to target her and that she had informed President Pervez Musharraf about “certain individuals” in his government who posed a threat to her life.


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In her first public comments in the wake of the deadly blasts on her motorcade after she returned to Pakistan yesterday from her self-imposed exile, Bhutto told a press conference here that she was “not blaming the government” for the attack.

She said she had written a letter to Musharraf on Oct 16 in which she had named three members of the government who should be investigated in the event of any attack on her.

Bhutto also said she had been informed that the “next attack” would be carried out by “placing policemen in the garb of workers of a rival party” near her homes in Karachi and Larkana so that her rivals could be blamed.

Despite repeated questions from reporters, Bhutto refused to identify the three persons she had named in her letter to Musharraf. She only described them as “certain people, individuals who abuse their positions and powers”.

Nearly 140 people were killed and over 500 injured in two blasts near the armoured truck in which Bhutto was travelling through the roads of Karachi late last night.

Bhutto said the people who planned the attack “are not Muslims” and that “no Muslim can attack a woman”.

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