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Bhutto's niece says Zardari killed her father
Fatima Bhutto, niece of the slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, said in comments published on Sunday she will continue to pursue her aunt's widower Asif Ali Zardari whom she accuses of involvement in her father's death.
- IANS
- Published: 00:16 May 19, 2008
London: Fatima Bhutto, niece of the slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto, said in comments published on Sunday she will continue to pursue her aunt's widower Asif Ali Zardari whom she accuses of involvement in her father's death.
Fatima Bhutto's father and Benazir's brother Murtaza was killed in 1996 in an ambush that Fatima blames on both Benazir and Zardari, who is now the head of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party.
"We are currently waiting for Zardari's acquittal judgment. But I am not going to give up this struggle. I am not going to stand down quietly. This is bigger than us - this is about justice. I will continue to do all I can to stand between Asif and a clean record," Fatima Bhutto told the Sunday Times in an interview.
Tribunal
She also blames Benazir for Murtaza's murder. "If she didn't sign the death warrant then who else had the power to cover it up? I would love to believe in the innocence of my aunt, but why else did she so obviously obstruct the investigation?" she told the newspaper.
A tribunal set up to probe the killing concluded the assassination could not have taken place "without approval from the highest level of government".
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