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A Report That Reveals Nothing
Finally, UN Commission has submitted its
report on Benazir Bhutto assassination. The report has
basically made three points: 1) The government of the time did
not provide enough of security to Benazir Bhutto, 2) It did not
fulfill its responsibility to follow appropriate investigative
procedures to investigate the assassination, and 3) it cleared
the crime scene too hurriedly and misled possible investigation
by holding a press conference very next day in which Brigadier
Cheema blamed Baitullah Mahsood for BB’s murder.
UNO Commission prepared this report after 250
interviews in and out of Pakistan. Who this report will satisfy,
perhaps PPP government, which has no intentions to investigate
and punish the culprit?
Why PPP government spent poor Pakistan’s 50
million dollars to get this report which reveals nothing is
beyond anyone’s comprehension? Any person with little bit
common sense and writing skills would have done a better job
than the UN fact finding Commission.
Has commission revealed any thing new which
was not known to the common folks of Pakistan? Or has it
revealed any facts at all?
The most ironic statement has come from
Presidential Spokesperson Farhatullah Babar. According to him,
the commission did not have the mandate to point out the culprit
or the culprits behind BB’s murder. If the commission did not
have to point out the culprit or culprits, then why the PPP
government ran to UNO to pay 50 million dollars and ask them to
establish a commission?
The fact of the matter is the security flaws
UN Commission has pointed out in its report about Musharraf
regime the same flaws equally or even more severely fit on PPP
government for its negligence to investigate the BB’s
assassination.
PPP leadership, including BB’s spouse, has
equally acted irresponsibly. PPP leadership, or Mr. Zardari, did
not take necessary legal steps which an assassination victim’s
close ones should have taken. As a matter of fact, PPP
leadership, and Mr. Zardari, played a major role in diluting the
BB’s assassination case. Their constant statements or actions in
relation with BB’s assassination seemed more on politically
cashing her murder instead of finding the culprits.
Their attitude has not been any different
than usual Pakistani pattern of cover-up about dealing with
various serious and non-serious crimes. It is more sort of
behavior of patronization of crime instead of dealing with crime
with iron fist.
The last irony in the whole episode of UNO
Commission report is PPP government’s subsequent delay requests.
What is in this commission report which
forced PPP government to ask UN Secretary General to delay the
issuance of the report twice? Was it an effort to dramatize the
issuance of report? Or to make it look worthy enough to justify
the expense of 50 million dollars from national exchequer? | 
