New tribunal to probe bombing of Bhutto's Karachi rally
A new tribunal will be set up to investigate the suicide bombing of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto's homecoming rally in Karachi last year and former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim will be among the suspects, the ruling PPP has s...
By PTI |
ISLAMABAD: A new tribunal will be set up to investigate the suicide bombing of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto's homecoming rally in Karachi last year and former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim will be among the suspects, the ruling PPP has said.
Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, the head of the Sindh unit of the Pakistan People's Party, said the tribunal will be constituted after the party forms government in the province, where it has a majority in the assembly.
Two suicide bombers attacked Bhutto's motorcade hours after she returned to Pakistan from exile on October 18 last year, killing 140 people and injuring hundreds more. The PPP leader was later assassinated in another suicide attack in Rawalpindi in December.
PML-Q leader Rahim will be on the list of suspects because a day before the attack, he made a statement that "Benazir's caravan will end at midnight", Mirza said.
Bhutto had reportedly alleged that Rahim along with several other PML-Q leaders and government officials were involved in a conspiracy to target her
Mirza told reporters in Karachi yesterday that if Rahim is found guilty by the new tribunal, he would be "hanged".
He said the PPP had "no trust" in the inquiry tribunal headed by retired judge Ghous Mohammad that was set up by the previous government to probe the suicide attack on Bhutto's rally and wanted to set up a new probe panel.
The PPP has boycotted the proceedings of the Ghous Mohammad tribunal on the grounds that it had no faith in it.
The tribunal's proceedings were stayed till April 15 by the Sindh High Court in response to a petition filed by PPP lawyer and now federal Law Minister Farooq Naek.
Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, the head of the Sindh unit of the Pakistan People's Party, said the tribunal will be constituted after the party forms government in the province, where it has a majority in the assembly.
Two suicide bombers attacked Bhutto's motorcade hours after she returned to Pakistan from exile on October 18 last year, killing 140 people and injuring hundreds more. The PPP leader was later assassinated in another suicide attack in Rawalpindi in December.
PML-Q leader Rahim will be on the list of suspects because a day before the attack, he made a statement that "Benazir's caravan will end at midnight", Mirza said.
Bhutto had reportedly alleged that Rahim along with several other PML-Q leaders and government officials were involved in a conspiracy to target her
Mirza told reporters in Karachi yesterday that if Rahim is found guilty by the new tribunal, he would be "hanged".
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He said the PPP had "no trust" in the inquiry tribunal headed by retired judge Ghous Mohammad that was set up by the previous government to probe the suicide attack on Bhutto's rally and wanted to set up a new probe panel.
The PPP has boycotted the proceedings of the Ghous Mohammad tribunal on the grounds that it had no faith in it.
The tribunal's proceedings were stayed till April 15 by the Sindh High Court in response to a petition filed by PPP lawyer and now federal Law Minister Farooq Naek.
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