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| Benazir murder:another FFC likely |
| 2010-05-11 |
| [The News (Pak) Top Stories] The government is considering setting up of another high-powered Fact Finding Committee, this time with the objective to give a clean chit to Interior Minister Senator Rehman Malik and Law Minister Senator Babar Awan, both of whom are incidentally closest to the president. According to some sources, this new FFC is being constituted to ensure a clean chit not only to these two ministers but all those who were riding the same Mercedes Benz car, which was stated to be the back-up car and which sped away from the scene of the tragedy moments before the killing of Benazir Bhutto on December 27, 2007. The News has learnt on authority that the composition of the second high-powered FFC is under serious consideration. According to sources, a former judge is likely to be nominated to head this second FFC and some top bureaucrats and a senior officer from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) would be its members. This new FFC is likely to be given two weeks' time to submit the report. It will have the same one-point mandate -- to inquire into the escape of the back-up car and intention of its riders, who fled from the scene of the suicide attack, leaving Ms Bhutto's vehicle at the mercy of the terrorists. As was the procedure followed by the first FFC, headed by the Cabinet Secretary Abdur Rauf Chaudhry, the second FFC would also record the statements of individuals who were in the car at the time. They include Rehman Malik, Babar Awan, presidential spokesperson Mr Farhatullah Babar, Lt. Gen. (retd) Tauqir Zia and driver Khizar in addition to some eyewitnesses. Repeated efforts were made to contact Farhatullah Babar for his comments and views as to what necessitated the formation of this second FFC. However, he remained unavailable for some inexplicable reasons. |
| Posted by:Fred |