HYDERABAD, Oct 21: The Quaid-i-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan Memorial Committee has urged the government to conduct an in-depth investigation into the assassination of Ms Benazir Bhutto and warned that high profile murders would continue if the government took the matter lightly.

The general secretary of the committee Mehfoozun Nabi Khan and other office-bearers said at a news conference at the press club on Tuesday that had proper investigation been conducted into the assassination of Quaid-i-Millat, the nation today would not have faced another great tragedy.

They pointed out that all the evidence, which could have exposed the murderers of Khan Liaquat Ali Khan, had been destroyed. The murder of these great leaders was not merely murder of individuals but it was tantamount to an attempt to deprive the nation of an ideology and a philosophy, they remarked.

“History bears witness to the fact that the country has gradually and greatly suffered after the assassination of Quaid-i-Millat,” Mehfoozun Nabi Khan he said.

During the regime of the great leader, three surplus budgets were presented and the balance of payment was also in favour of Pakistan and despite international pressure, the Quaid-i-Millat had refused to devalue the rupee, he said.

Prior to the promulgation of martial law in 1958, all the prime ministers of Pakistan had emulated Quaid-i-Millat and refused to sign the Indus Water Treaty, he said.

He claimed that many a senior bureaucrat led by Masood Khadarposh had expressed strong reservations over the Indus Water Treaty.

He lamented that the Sindh chief minister had forgotten the tradition followed by his predecessors of paying homage at the grave of Quaid-i-Millat on his death anniversary on Oct 16.

Mr Khan suggested that a tomb be raised on the grave of Quaid-i-Millat and other prominent leaders of Pakistan Movement buried inside the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam with proper names and their role in the Pakistan Movement in detail.