Osama bin laden was supervising the plot to assassinate two-time Prime Minister and PPP leader Benazir Bhutto and for this the former al-Qaeda chief had shifted to Afghanistan, according to intelligence gathered by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence, a media report said on her 10th death anniversary on Wednesday.
According to a report in The News International, the explosives to execute the assassination were provided by the courier of Osama bin laden.
This information was provided to the Interior Ministry in December 2007 by the Pakistan Army and the ISI in three reports as well as in letters obtained from the former Al Qaeda chief’s residence.
In the secret Intelligence reports, the Interior Ministry was warned that bin laden had issued orders to kill then-President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan People’s Party’s former chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman.
Bhutto was killed along with 21 people in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s liaquat Bagh during an election campaign rally on December 27, 2007. According to the documents received by The News International correspondent, the most important letter by the ISI to the Ministry of Interior was written on December 19, 2007.
The letter was directed to the Interior Ministry’s then-director coordination of the Crisis Management Cell Colonel Muhammad Imran Yaqub.