Chairman Pakistan People's Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, after having a thorough briefing on the investigation into the assassination of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, said on Sunday the premature release of the entire investigation report could legally sabotage the case currently in progress.
Addressing the Central Executive Committee of PPP here, Bilawal said, "the premature release of the entire investigation report could legally sabotage the case currently in progress. It could also allow the conspirators - who may not be confined to our borders - to permanently deprive the people of Pakistan and the citizens of the world of the truth they deserve."
He advised the members of the CEC to appoint a limited number of its most senior members to have a full and complete briefing of the entire investigation report.
Bilawal said, "Given the complexities of this conspiracy, this committee of senior members can advise us on how to proceed with the publication of the report. It will decide what information can responsibly be released to satisfy the desire of our supporters for information. While also ensuring we do not hamper the legal proceedings already in progress in our national courts. We cannot allow those that conspired to rid the world of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto to sabotage our desire for justice and our search for the truth," he added.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said there was a need to proceed with caution on the report as his mother assassination's circumstances were far more complicated. He said the report identifies the individuals involved in the criminal act and also follows the trail they left behind in an attempt to expose the financers, orchestrators and co-conspirators involved.
"Everyone directly involved, who could be arrested and are still alive have been taken into custody."
He said the report also raises many questions and having read everything it was easy to conclude that this was a grand conspiracy.
It was a conspiracy to rob Pakistan of its best hope to establish a fully functional democracy, he added.
He divulged that as son of Benazir Bhutto and her heir, he was the only person to have received a complete briefing of the investigation into her assassination.
"I would like to thank our investigation team. In taking on this responsibility they have risked their lives. They have worked tirelessly for three years to come to the truth." He said he fully supports the party's decision to revisit the case of the judicial murder of Shaheed Bhutto "It is not just a question of law, it is also a question for history. It is right for us to finally set the record straight and ensure that such an autocracy never ever again takes place in our nation's courts."
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