02 Jan 2008

Benazir's Assassination: Q & A - International Terrorism Monitor -- Paper No. 343
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "(I have received a number of questions from the readers of my articles on the assassination of Mrs. Benazir Bhutto at Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. I have attempted to answer them in this article) Q. Could President Pervez Musharraf and the Pakistan Army have had a hand in the assassination of Mrs. Benazir Bhutto? [...] Q. How about complicity at the lower and middle levels of the armed forces, without the knowledge of Musharraf and Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS)? [...] Q. How about wilful negligence in providing effective physical security to her? [...] Q. How come so many terrorist strikes have been taking place in Rawalpindi at regular intervals despite the fact that it is a military cantonment where the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Pakistan Army are located? [...] Q. You have written about the growing infiltration of the GHQ itself by Al Qaeda and pro-Al Qaeda elements and the dangers of the similar infiltration of Pakistan's nuclear establishment? Why the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has not been able to detect the sleeper cells of Al Qaeda in the GHQ? [...] Q. Who could have killed Benazir? [...] Q. How politically secure is Musharraf?" - b.raman
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed. ]
URL http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers26/paper2533.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.southasiaanalysis.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (ram1994--at--vsnl.net)
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