Premature release of investigation report on BB murder to sabotage case: Bilawal Bhutto...
NAUDERO, Apr 3 (APP): Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, after having a thorough briefing on the investigation into the assassination of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, said on Sunday the premature release of the entire investigation report could legally sabotage the case currently in progress. Addressing the Central Executive Committee of PPP here, Bilawal said, “the premature release of the entire investigation report could legally sabotage the case currently in progress. It could also allow the conspirators - who may not be confined to our borders - to permanently deprive the people of Pakistan and the citizens of the world of the truth they deserve.”
He advised the members of the CEC to appoint a limited number of its most senior members to have a full and complete briefing of the entire investigation report.
Bilawal said, “Given the complexities of this conspiracy, this committee of senior members can advise us on how to proceed with the publication of the report. It will decide what information can responsibly be released to satisfy the desire of our supporters for information.
“While also ensuring we do not hamper the legal proceedings already in progress in our national courts. We cannot allow those that conspired to rid the world of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto to sabotage our desire for justice and our search for the truth,” he added.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said there is a need to proceed with caution on the report as his mother assassination’s circumstances are far more complicated.
He said the report identifies the individuals involved in the criminal act and also follows the trail they left behind in an attempt to expose the financers, orchestrators and co-conspirators involved.
“Everyone directly involved, who could be arrested and are still alive have been taken into custody.”
He said the report also raises many questions and having read everything it is easy to conclude that this was a grand conspiracy.
He said assassination of her mother was a conspiracy to rid the world of its best weapon to combat international violent extremism.
It was a conspiracy to rob Pakistan of its best hope to establish a fully functional democracy, he added.
He divulged that as son of Benazir Bhutto and her heir, he was the only person to have received a complete briefing of the investigation into her assassination.
“I would like to thank our investigation team. In taking on this responsibility they have risked their lives. They have worked tirelessly for 3 years to come to the truth.”
He said he fully supports the party’s decision to revisit the case of the Judicial murder of Shaheed Bhutto.
“It is not just a question of law, it is also a question for history. It is right for us to finally set the record straight and ensure that such an autocracy never ever again takes place in our nation’s courts”.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari thanked the United Nations for honouring his mother by passing a resolution to condemn her assassination.
“They also obeyed the wishes of the people of Pakistan, who demanded through unanimous resolutions passed by all four provincial assemblies, our National Assembly and the Senate, that the United Nations investigate her assassination.”
He said the UN’s detailed and invaluable report is of the utmost importance to history.
“It did the best it could in the confines of the parameters set. Both reports combined lead us towards the answers we seek.”
Bilawal said his mother Shaheed Benazir Bhutto taught him that democracy was the greatest revenge.
“The day she took oath as the first female prime minister of Pakistan was the day she took her revenge. When she too was martyred I fought against my natural instincts as a son who’s mother was assassinated. My heart, my entire being pulsed with rage demanding violent vengeance.”
He said he had feelings of revenge because the dictatorial regime purposely sabotaged the security arrangements, provided purposely inadequate resources, purposely flawed equipments and purposely designed to leave her vulnerable.
“All the while having the complete knowledge, supported by unquestionable evidence that the extremists lay in wait at that exact spot ready to attack,” he added.
Bilawal said he believed that his mother’s spirit and her teachings cooled the tempers of a hot headed 19-year old, allowing him to convince a party ready for all out civil-war and a traumatized nation that democracy is the best revenge.
“This remains our mantra. Be it the judicial murders of Shaheed Zulfikar Bhutto or the forces of extremism and dictatorship that assassinated his daughter: democracy is and always will be the best revenge.”
He was of the view that their martyrs lives would not be avenged if any insignificant man alone is held responsible.
“For us to have our revenge we must insure that the circumstances that allowed for Shaheed Bhutto’s judicial murder never arise again,” he added.
He called for defeating the forces of extremism and dictatorship to take revenge of Shaheed BB’s assassination.
“We must defeat the forces of violent extremism and dictatorship that together assassinated his mother. To do this we must dedicate our lives to the establishment of a fully functioning democracy in Pakistan.”
He stressed on rule of law and said it must take its course.
“This after all is also an important component of democracy.
It is our responsibility to history to ensure the full and complete facts so the truth of these crimes are known to the world.”
He saluted martyrs of his party and said all of them deserve justice for their sacrifice.
“I salute our martyred founder who choose the gallows but refused to be silenced by tyranny. I salute his martyred daughter who refused to be silenced by fear. I also salute our party’s newest martyrs who have joined their leaders in the afterlife.”
Bilawal saluted martyred minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti calling him Pakistan’s modern day equivalent to Martin Luther King and also Salman Taseer.
“I salute our martyred Governor - the real lion of Punjab. I salute all the martyrs of the PPP who have given their lives for our party, our country and our democracy,” the PPP Chairman said in his concluding remarks.
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