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Who Killed Benazir
Bhutto?
Bhutto killers faces unmasked
An investigative report
By Ahmar Mustikhan
The killing of twice-premier Benazir Bhutto last Thursday is being turned by the world media into a Pythagorean mystery, much to the sadistic
pleasure of the Pakistani establishment, including coup leader-turned-president Gen. ( R ) Pervez Musharraf.
As Pakistan presented the look of a ghost country, the guilt, shame and fear that was writ large on Musharraf’s face after Bhutto’s death when
he addressed the nation on television to announce a three-day mourning make some things clear.
The deadly cocktail of powerful groups who wanted Benazir Bhutto, 54, annihilated include serving and retired generals, present and past
intelligence chiefs, international smugglers with billions of dollars in their coffers, son of at least one former military dictator, investigations by
this correspondent reveals.
All of these groups in Pakistan are closely allied with terrorist mastermind bin Laden—Al Qaeda and Pakistani establishment are two sides of
the same coin.
The same elements were responsible for the deaths of secular leaders from the renegade province of Baluchistan, former governor and chief
minister Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti last year and former member of the provincial assembly and guerilla leader Mir Balaa’ch Marri last month.
People who stand to gain from Bhutto’s death comprise Musharraf himself—though on the face of it, he unwillingly accepted a power-sharing
formula handed to him from Washington-- , Intelligence Bureau chief Brig ( R ) Ejaz Shah, former Inter Services Intelligence chief Gen. ( R )
Hamid Gul [who blames Benazir Bhutto for not letting him become the army chief on U.S. bidding. Not many people know, Gul is Musharraf’s
alter ego.], former member of national assembly Ejazul Haq, and international smuggler Daud Ebrahim.
Unbeknownst to Bhutto, as her relationship with U.S administration officials warmed up, these dangerous players in Pakistan politics with
whom bin Laden is firmly ensconced with were closely following her moves. From her plane trip with Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, the permanent
U.S. representative to the United Nations, to Colorado to her phone talk with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just a week before her
arrival in Karachi, she was on the radar of Pakistani intelligence and the terrorists alike.
Pakistan has misled the world to believe it was incapable of arresting bin Laden and Taliba’an ruler Mullah Omar. But after Bhutto met
Khalilzad, a Kakar tribesman originally from Afghanistan, Musharraf secretly met an Afghan tribesman from the Ghilzai tribe, Khalilzad’s chief
nemesis, ousted Taliba’an “amir”, one-eyed Mullah Omar in the garrison city of Quetta, bordering Afghanistan.
Musharraf met Mullah Omar before and after his visit to Saudi Arabia.
It is not surprising the city where Bhutto died is the headquarters of Pakistan Army—the world’s fifth largest army, with nuclear arms. Soldiers
of Pakistani army chant Allah O’ Akbar [Allah is the Greatest, which in other words means rule of Islam over the entire world] as part of their
daily drill in Rawalpindi.
Additionally, Rawalpindi has the dubious distinction of being the death place of civilian prime ministers ever since Pakistan’s controversial
inception in August 1947. Prior to Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaquat Al Khan was gunned down at the same ground on Oct.
18, 1951, and not far away once stood the jail where her dad former Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged April 4, 1979.
The city is also home of Ejazul Haq, son of General Ziaul Haq, who died in an air crash August 17, 1988 along with U.S. Ambassador Arnie
Raphel.
The Haqs have a pathological dislike of Bhuttos, though it was General Ziaul Haq father who hanged Bhutto’s father—when asked why he had
to kill Bhutto, the general responded, “There was one grave and two people. I myself and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. So I sent Bhutto in it.”
Many in Pakistan suspect Haq might have had a hand in Bhutto’s killing.
Pakistani officials floated the name of Baitullah Mehsud, founder of an obscure Tehrik-i-Taliba’an; interestingly one of Mehsud’s spokesmen
called foreign news services from Waziristan, to deny the Pakistani claim.
Blatant lying is not uncommon in Pakistan and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has correctly pointed out the Musharraf regime
can not be trusted.
Musharraf’ has repeatedly lied that Daud Ebrahim—the street goon from Mumbai, who rose to become a mafia don in the smugglers’ paradise
of Dubai-- is not in Pakistan. Ebrahim was responsible for the killing of 250 people in Mumbai on March 12, 1993 in retribution for Hindu
extremists taking over Babri Mosque. But this correspondent saw Ebrahim at a party in Karachi, where plainclothesmen of the intelligence
services had blocked off all roads as a security measure.
Musharraf and Ejaz Shah did not provide Bhutto even half of the security that Pakistan provides to Ebrahim, bin Laden and Mullah Omar.
While in Dubai in the late eighties and early nineties, Ebrahim and bin Laden had maintained extensive contacts as both were one the multi-
millionaires club-- one was in smuggling and the other in real estate. Today, both are in Pakistan and Ebrahim’s men’s appear to be looking
after bin Laden’s business interests in smuggling and havala business: an international racket of transferring funds from one country to
another, without official interception.
Pakistani public and Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party continue to suspect Musharraf is directly involved.
A report in the New York Sun hinted at the involvement of the commando group called Special Services Group that was headed by Musharraf
for many years before he became the army chief.
But most importantly, the name that Benazir Bhutto herself clearly mentioned to Musharraf before her arrival in Pakistan was that of Ejaz Shah,
director of the country’s Intelligence Bureau.
Shah, a retired brigadier of the Pakistan army, is the same man who sheltered Ahmed Saeed Omar Shaikh, the mastermind behind the
gruesome slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, as an FBI hunt was on for Pearl’s abductors. A Musharraf protégé to this day,
Shah was in charge of ISI operations in Kashmir.
At the time of Daniel Pearl’s slaying, Shah was the home secretary—the top law official-- of Pakistan’s most populous Punjab province.
However, Musharraf blamed Pearl for inviting his death.
Over the years, Ejaz Shah has wriggled his way up, closely working with Al Qaeda in its international jihadi operations. As part of his job, Shah
is believed to be in regular contact with bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Daud Ebrahim.
Bin Laden’s personal dislike for Benazir Bhutto is an open secret. The terrorist mastermind is said to have offered huge sums of money to
Pakistani legislators to oust Bhutto through a vote of no-confidence as early as her first term as elected prime minister of Pakistan (1988-90).
“Bin laden operatives approached us with bag-loads of money,” recalls Mir Hasil Bizenjo, secretary general of the National Party, who was then
a member of the National Assembly.
(Journalist Ahmar Mustikhan can be contacted at )
© Mustikhan News Syndicate
Related links:
Bhutto?
Bhutto killers faces unmasked
An investigative report
By Ahmar Mustikhan
The killing of twice-premier Benazir Bhutto last Thursday is being turned by the world media into a Pythagorean mystery, much to the sadistic
pleasure of the Pakistani establishment, including coup leader-turned-president Gen. ( R ) Pervez Musharraf.
As Pakistan presented the look of a ghost country, the guilt, shame and fear that was writ large on Musharraf’s face after Bhutto’s death when
he addressed the nation on television to announce a three-day mourning make some things clear.
The deadly cocktail of powerful groups who wanted Benazir Bhutto, 54, annihilated include serving and retired generals, present and past
intelligence chiefs, international smugglers with billions of dollars in their coffers, son of at least one former military dictator, investigations by
this correspondent reveals.
All of these groups in Pakistan are closely allied with terrorist mastermind bin Laden—Al Qaeda and Pakistani establishment are two sides of
the same coin.
The same elements were responsible for the deaths of secular leaders from the renegade province of Baluchistan, former governor and chief
minister Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti last year and former member of the provincial assembly and guerilla leader Mir Balaa’ch Marri last month.
People who stand to gain from Bhutto’s death comprise Musharraf himself—though on the face of it, he unwillingly accepted a power-sharing
formula handed to him from Washington-- , Intelligence Bureau chief Brig ( R ) Ejaz Shah, former Inter Services Intelligence chief Gen. ( R )
Hamid Gul [who blames Benazir Bhutto for not letting him become the army chief on U.S. bidding. Not many people know, Gul is Musharraf’s
alter ego.], former member of national assembly Ejazul Haq, and international smuggler Daud Ebrahim.
Unbeknownst to Bhutto, as her relationship with U.S administration officials warmed up, these dangerous players in Pakistan politics with
whom bin Laden is firmly ensconced with were closely following her moves. From her plane trip with Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, the permanent
U.S. representative to the United Nations, to Colorado to her phone talk with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just a week before her
arrival in Karachi, she was on the radar of Pakistani intelligence and the terrorists alike.
Pakistan has misled the world to believe it was incapable of arresting bin Laden and Taliba’an ruler Mullah Omar. But after Bhutto met
Khalilzad, a Kakar tribesman originally from Afghanistan, Musharraf secretly met an Afghan tribesman from the Ghilzai tribe, Khalilzad’s chief
nemesis, ousted Taliba’an “amir”, one-eyed Mullah Omar in the garrison city of Quetta, bordering Afghanistan.
Musharraf met Mullah Omar before and after his visit to Saudi Arabia.
It is not surprising the city where Bhutto died is the headquarters of Pakistan Army—the world’s fifth largest army, with nuclear arms. Soldiers
of Pakistani army chant Allah O’ Akbar [Allah is the Greatest, which in other words means rule of Islam over the entire world] as part of their
daily drill in Rawalpindi.
Additionally, Rawalpindi has the dubious distinction of being the death place of civilian prime ministers ever since Pakistan’s controversial
inception in August 1947. Prior to Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaquat Al Khan was gunned down at the same ground on Oct.
18, 1951, and not far away once stood the jail where her dad former Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged April 4, 1979.
The city is also home of Ejazul Haq, son of General Ziaul Haq, who died in an air crash August 17, 1988 along with U.S. Ambassador Arnie
Raphel.
The Haqs have a pathological dislike of Bhuttos, though it was General Ziaul Haq father who hanged Bhutto’s father—when asked why he had
to kill Bhutto, the general responded, “There was one grave and two people. I myself and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. So I sent Bhutto in it.”
Many in Pakistan suspect Haq might have had a hand in Bhutto’s killing.
Pakistani officials floated the name of Baitullah Mehsud, founder of an obscure Tehrik-i-Taliba’an; interestingly one of Mehsud’s spokesmen
called foreign news services from Waziristan, to deny the Pakistani claim.
Blatant lying is not uncommon in Pakistan and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has correctly pointed out the Musharraf regime
can not be trusted.
Musharraf’ has repeatedly lied that Daud Ebrahim—the street goon from Mumbai, who rose to become a mafia don in the smugglers’ paradise
of Dubai-- is not in Pakistan. Ebrahim was responsible for the killing of 250 people in Mumbai on March 12, 1993 in retribution for Hindu
extremists taking over Babri Mosque. But this correspondent saw Ebrahim at a party in Karachi, where plainclothesmen of the intelligence
services had blocked off all roads as a security measure.
Musharraf and Ejaz Shah did not provide Bhutto even half of the security that Pakistan provides to Ebrahim, bin Laden and Mullah Omar.
While in Dubai in the late eighties and early nineties, Ebrahim and bin Laden had maintained extensive contacts as both were one the multi-
millionaires club-- one was in smuggling and the other in real estate. Today, both are in Pakistan and Ebrahim’s men’s appear to be looking
after bin Laden’s business interests in smuggling and havala business: an international racket of transferring funds from one country to
another, without official interception.
Pakistani public and Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party continue to suspect Musharraf is directly involved.
A report in the New York Sun hinted at the involvement of the commando group called Special Services Group that was headed by Musharraf
for many years before he became the army chief.
But most importantly, the name that Benazir Bhutto herself clearly mentioned to Musharraf before her arrival in Pakistan was that of Ejaz Shah,
director of the country’s Intelligence Bureau.
Shah, a retired brigadier of the Pakistan army, is the same man who sheltered Ahmed Saeed Omar Shaikh, the mastermind behind the
gruesome slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, as an FBI hunt was on for Pearl’s abductors. A Musharraf protégé to this day,
Shah was in charge of ISI operations in Kashmir.
At the time of Daniel Pearl’s slaying, Shah was the home secretary—the top law official-- of Pakistan’s most populous Punjab province.
However, Musharraf blamed Pearl for inviting his death.
Over the years, Ejaz Shah has wriggled his way up, closely working with Al Qaeda in its international jihadi operations. As part of his job, Shah
is believed to be in regular contact with bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Daud Ebrahim.
Bin Laden’s personal dislike for Benazir Bhutto is an open secret. The terrorist mastermind is said to have offered huge sums of money to
Pakistani legislators to oust Bhutto through a vote of no-confidence as early as her first term as elected prime minister of Pakistan (1988-90).
“Bin laden operatives approached us with bag-loads of money,” recalls Mir Hasil Bizenjo, secretary general of the National Party, who was then
a member of the National Assembly.
(Journalist Ahmar Mustikhan can be contacted at )
© Mustikhan News Syndicate
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TV frame grab taken on December 30, 2007 from footage by an amateur cameraman shows a suspected gunman (within circle, wearing sunglasses) near former
Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto's vehicle in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.
Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto's vehicle in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.
December 30, 2007. A Baloch women from Layri Karachi passed away in grief on the grave of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
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