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Musharraf says Zardari behind BB, Murtaza Bhutto assassinations

Musharraf says Zardari behind BB, Murtaza Bhutto assassinations

Musharraf says Zardari behind BB, Murtaza Bhutto assassinations
ISLAMABAD: Former military dictator Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf on Thursday blamed the Pakistan Peoples Party leader Asif Ali Zardari for the murder of his wife former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. 
In a video message, the former president of Pakistan who ousted Nawaz Sharif out of power in 1999 military coupe said Zardari is also to blame for the murder of Benazir's younger brother Murtaza Bhutto. 
Benazir was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack at a PPP rally in Rawalpindi in 2007. 
Anti-terrorism court on on August 31 declared Musharraf a fugitive in the murder case of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and acquitted five people in the killing.

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