The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to indict the people nominated in the UN Commission's report on the death of Benazir Bhutto, and there is a possibility of arresting people responsible for providing poor security cover during the public rally.
Additional Inspector General (AIG) of Punjab Police (CID) Abdul Majeed, AIG Multan Ranger (then City Police Officer, Rawalpindi) Saud Aziz and other six officials who were made OSDs will be indicted for negligence in providing security cover, sources in Interior Ministry told Business Recorder on Wednesday.
They said that the UN Commission in its report held many people responsible for security lapse during the public meeting. They included President Pervez Musharraf, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik chief security officer of Benazir, CPO Saud Aziz, DCO Rawalpindi Irfan Elahi. Sources said that FIA has planned to indict all people mentioned in the report.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) has directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to file the challan of Benazir Bhutto case so that the court should be able to resume hearing. The judge of the ATC-1 Muhammad Akram Awan resumed hearing of the case and observed that delay in hearing was not appropriate.
He said that the UN report was made public and in view of this investigation report, the prosecution should prepare charge sheet to dispose of this case. The delay in preparing challan depicts the non-seriousness of the investigating authorities.
The judge observed that hearing is not resorted to for the last more than six months. The court admitted that application has been filed by FIA pleading that some more accused were being indicted in the case, so that the court should give some more time to prosecution. The application reads that the FIA needs to indict some personalities involved in this high profile murder so that the prosecution needs some time.
The court has issued summons to the prosecution witnesses. It is pertinent to note that the government had nominated deceased Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and his four accomplices including Abdullah alias Saddam, Faiz Ahmed alias Kiscuit, Ikram alias Usman and Abadur Rehman as mastermind in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and Liaqat Bagh suicide bombing of December 27, 2007, in which 26 people including Benazir Bhutto were killed.
Under section 87 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the court declared them proclaimed offenders and directed the prosecution to publish advertisement against the absconding masterminds of the suicide bombing.
The investigation team stated that the accused arrested in suicide bombings including Hasnain Gul, Muhammad Rafaqat, Aitzaz Shah, Sher Zaman and Rasheed confessed their involvement in a series of suicide bombings in Rawalpindi and they also admitted that Baitullah Mehsud was mastermind in these blasts along with death of Benazir Bhutto.
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