OKARA, Jan 10: Former chief minister Pervaiz Elahi has said that the ‘will’ allegedly dictated by Benazir Bhutto be made the part of investigations conducted by the Scotland Yard team keeping in view the main beneficiary of her murder.

The PML-Q Punjab chief said this while addressing a workers’ convention at the farmhouse of PML-Q’s NA-146 candidate Rao Muhammad Ajmal Khan in Deepalpur on Thursday. Candidates Syed Afzal Ali Shah (NA-147), Syed Raza Ali Gillani (PP-187) and Malik Nazar Farid Khokhar (PP-192) were also among participants.

Mr Elahi said that the signature of the late Benazir Bhutto should be got verified because she had declared some three years back that her husband had nothing to do with the PPP.

He said the late PPP chairperson had therefore not awarded the party ticket to Asif Ali Zardari.

“I am sure that the major beneficiary of Ms Bhutto’s murder is Mr Zardari who wants to take hold of the PPP”, he said.

The former chief minister said now Nawaz Sharif should adopt the name of `Nawaz Bhutto Zardari Sharif’ for being the Punjab franchiser of the Zardari company.

Although the Shah Muqeem group chief Syed Afzal Ali Shah and his son Syed Raza Ali Gillani, the former provincial minister, in their addresses severely criticized their opponent and former chief minister Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo, Pervaiz Elahi did not even gestures towards him.

The local administration had taken strict security measures as no one was allowed entry without undergoing a thorough search following the suicide blast in Lahore. Sniffer dogs were also assisting the security personnel.

DPO Mirza Faran Baig, DCO Aslam Kamboh and EDO (Revenue) Ghulam Nabi Krori were present there along with a heavy police contingent.

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