ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency of Pakistan will be interrogating former interior minister Rehman Malik in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, it has been learnt.
According to sources in the agency, the decision to include Malik, who was Benazir’s head of security when she was assassinated, in the investigation was taken after former president Pervez Musharraf told the Joint Investigation Team that the former interior minister was responsible for the Pakistan People’s Party chairperson’s murder.
During his interrogation, Musharraf maintained two security plans had been chalked out for Benazir’s protection; one for external security and the other for internal security.
“Rehman Malik was responsible for Benazir Bhutto’s internal security; she was assassinated following a lapse in internal security,” an FIA source quoted the former president as saying during an investigation.
Musharraf repeatedly denied having any role in the PPP leader’s assassination, he added.
Musharraf’s lawyer Salman Safdar confirmed his statement on the existence of an internal security plan under Rehman Malik’s supervision. “Only Malik knew about the arrangements made for that plan,” he maintained. “Why was there such a major breach of security? Only he can give an answer to that.”
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