By IANS,
Islamabad : The National Assembly has passed a unanimous resolution asking the government to build a memorial to slain Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto at the site in Rawalpindi where she was assassinated on Dec 27 last year.
“This house is of the opinion that the government, in consultation with the provincial government of Punjab, should build a monument and establish a library with the name of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto at the place of her assassination,” said the resolution, moved Tuesday by PPP member Fakhar-un-Nisa Khokhar.
“It was taken up, out of turn, on the private members’ day on the insistence of several PPP members who said the matter would be delayed for a long time…if not voted on now,” Dawn reported Wednesday.
Bhutto was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack as she was being driven out of the Liaquat Bagh in the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi after addressing a PPP election rally there.
“The site, which was mysteriously washed by the fire brigade soon after the incident, has already become a virtual shrine where party workers and other people come to pray for the assassinated leader and place flowers,” Dawn said.