Bhutto receives threat from female suicide bombers
Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto has received a threat that she would be targeted by female suicide bombers.
By PTI |
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto has received a threat that she would be targeted by female suicide bombers, one of her close aides said on Tuesday.
Farooq Naik, a senior lawyer and member of the Senate or upper house of Parliament, said the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party had received a letter that contained the threat.
The letter was purportedly written by the leader of the suicide squad, Naik told a news channel.
Naik indicated that the bombers might be linked to terrorist groups like Al Qaida.
The development came five days after a suicide attack on Bhutto's homecoming rally in the southern port city of Karachi that claimed nearly 140 lives and injured hundreds more.
Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan on October 18 after eight years in self-exile, had earlier alleged that three senior government officials were behind attempts to assassinate her. She has also claimed that jehadi elements in the establishment who were close to late military dictator Gen Zia-ul-Haq were targeting her.
The government has dismissed her allegations and Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has said that he believes extremists from Pakistan's restive tribal areas bordering Afghanistan were behind the attack on Bhutto's motorcade.
Farooq Naik, a senior lawyer and member of the Senate or upper house of Parliament, said the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party had received a letter that contained the threat.
The letter was purportedly written by the leader of the suicide squad, Naik told a news channel.
Naik indicated that the bombers might be linked to terrorist groups like Al Qaida.
The development came five days after a suicide attack on Bhutto's homecoming rally in the southern port city of Karachi that claimed nearly 140 lives and injured hundreds more.
Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan on October 18 after eight years in self-exile, had earlier alleged that three senior government officials were behind attempts to assassinate her. She has also claimed that jehadi elements in the establishment who were close to late military dictator Gen Zia-ul-Haq were targeting her.
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The government has dismissed her allegations and Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has said that he believes extremists from Pakistan's restive tribal areas bordering Afghanistan were behind the attack on Bhutto's motorcade.
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