23 September, 2017
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has challenged Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf to return to the country and face the courts if he is "brave enough".
Referring to the tenure of deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the former president said, "Sharif is incapable of ruling the country aptly".
Musharraf blamed Zardari for the destruction of the Bhutto family, stating that he had Benazir murdered in collusion with militant Baitullah Mehsud. "History is full of such accusations", the Express Tribune reported.
Ms Benazir's elder daughter Bakhtawar slammed Musharraf in a series of tweets.
Benazir's younger daughter Aseefa Bhutto Zardari said in a Tweet that she was "disgusted and appalled by media houses that are giving attention to this murderer, who ran away".
On August 31, an Anti-Terrorist Court in Rawalpindi acquitted five alleged operatives of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for want of evidence over the assassination of Benazir in a gun and suicide attack in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007.
Musharraf accused PPP co-chairman Zardari of "having the most to gain from Benazir Bhutto's murder". "Benazir Bhutto was brutally murdered by people who actively rejected the values that all of us here in this United Nations stand for", Ms May said.
He added: "Zardari was in power for five years, why did he not look into the case, why was the investigation not active - because he was involved in Benazir's murder".
"Musharraf should quit talk shows and come talk in the courts of Pakistan".
He said Benazir had a heavy security detail and had got into her vehicle unharmed, before someone called her incessantly and got her to wave to the people out of the hatch.
