Naheed Khan Monday approached an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) to respond to the statement of a witness in the Benazir Bhutto murder case. On September 2, a prosecution witness Javedur Rehman, a driver working at the Zardari House, who was driving the vehicle of Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2007, told the ATC that Naheed Khan, who was political secretary to Pakistan People's Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto, had asked Razzaq Mirani to open the escape hatch (sun-roof) of a bomb-proof vehicle.
In the ATC, Naheed Khan also filed a request to obtain court records of case proceedings and a written statement of Javedur Rehman, who maintained that the estranged PPP activist had asked Benazir to wave to the crowd at her Liaquat Bagh rally on December 27. Speaking to the press outside the ATC, Naheed Khan said a record of court proceedings so far had been requested, and that "all matters will be discussed in court".
Referring to the request for documents regarding court proceedings in the case, her legal counsel said that any citizen can obtain a public document according to law. "The judge has issued notices to the complainant and special prosecutor and summoned the entire record to be handed over on September 14." "For reasons best known to the court, they asked us to submit a petition for this; so we did. The case has been adjourned for arguments till September 14," he said.
Naheed Khan's statement was recorded by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in 2009, but the FIA hadn't produced the statement before the ATC, nor had it asked her to testify in the said case. Naheed Khan said she hadn't advised Benazir to wave hands, nor had she asked anyone to open the escape hatch. She said besides her, Makhdoom Amin Fahim and her spouse Safdar Abbasi were also travelling in the vehicle, but investigators never included them in the calendar of witnesses. Earlier this year, Naheed Khan and her spouse had formed a new party - the PPP Workers (PPP-W) - in a bid to "save the legacy of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and its former chairperson Benazir Bhutto".
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