TOBA TEK SINGH: PPP-Workers’ leader Naheed Khan says at the time of attack on her leader Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007, she was so traumatised, she did not know if Bhutto’s autopsy had been conducted or not, or who had stopped doctors from conducting autopsy.

Ms Khan and her husband, Senator Safdar Abbasi, visited the residence of late PPP leader Ghiasuddin Janbaz on Monday and offered condolence on his death.

She told reporters no one had asked her to hand over her blood-stained clothes to police or any investigators.

She said that on every death anniversary of Ms Bhutto, PPP leaders would say they knew her murderers. If that was so, why her killers were not arrested.

She said after eight years of Ms Bhutto’s martyrdom, her driver who is now a servant of Asif Ali Zardari, has given a statement that just before the attack on Ms Bhutto at Liaquat Bagh, Ms Khan had asked Ms Bhutto to stand to wave to the masses.

She said the driver was otherwise a gentleman, but he had been forced to say what his master dictated him to say so.

When Scotland Yard and a UN team investigated the murder case, the driver was not asked to get record his statement. She said no one ever interrogated other vehicle passengers of Ms Bhutto -- her husband Safdar Abbasi, late Makhdoom Amin Fahim and her, regarding the murder facts.

She said in fact Zardari was not interested in the inquiry of the murder case and the proof of her allegation was that no one from Zardari’s side had ever appeared in any court during trial of the murder case.

She said it was very painful for all ideological PPP workers that their party which was the symbol of the federation of Pakistan had been confined to a few districts of Sindh in the 2013 general elections. She said if he wanted to succeed in politics, PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari must leave behind Zardari’s politics but it seemed a bit difficult because Zardari had got elected himself PPP-Parliamentarians chairman after the death of Amin Fahim and tickets would be issued to candidates by his father.

She said they were always praying for Bilawal’s success in politics. She demanded the Islamabad High Court chief justice order the trial court judge to consider her case regarding the ownership of the PPP which had unlawfully been occupied by Zardari.

Dr Abbasi said Zardari was unlawfully leading the party as the real owner of the party were its workers.

He said his party was the genuine representative of PPP workers so they should join it.

The couple also visited the houses of late PPP founder members Mian Inaam Akhtar and Safdar Nasir Chohan and condoled their deaths with their families.

Published in Dawn, January 12th, 2016