Bilawal Bhutto son of Benazir: Murder of mother planned by Musharraf

Islamabad, Dec 28: During an interview Bilawal Bhutto Zardari son of Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman has accused former military dictator Pervez Musharraf personally responsible for the murder of his mother.

The country observed her 10th death anniversary on Wednesday.

Bhutto, the PPP chief and a two-time Prime Minister, was killed along with 21 people in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh during an election campaign rally on December 27, 2007.

"Musharraf exploited this entire situation to assassinate my mother. He purposely sabotaged her security so that she would be assassinated and taken off the scene." he said.

He said that he doesn't hold the man who fired the bullet at his late mother responsible for her murder.

Bilawal Bhutto said that Musharraf, who is in self-imposed exile in Dubai, had directly threatened Bhutto and told her that her security was based on the state of relationship with him. He claimed that on the day of her assassination, the security cordon was taken off from her by the former military ruler.