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Former President General Pervez Musharraf, Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Law Minister Babar Awan and other Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leaders would be quizzed in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by the fact finding committee constituted by the government following the UN committee's report. The decision was taken during PPP's core committee's meeting, which was presided over by President Asif Ali Zardari. According to sources privy to the meeting, it was decided that all leaders who accompanied Bhutto during the election rally in Rawalpindi's Liaqaut Bagh, where she was killed in a gun and bomb attack on December 27,2007, would be interrogated- "whether they belong to the PPP or not." Briefing media persons after the meeting, Presidential spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said Malik told the core committee about the progress made by the three-men fact-finding committee looking into the hosing down of the Benazir's assassination site. He said the committee would question "some more people" before filing its report, which would be submitted to the Prime Minister within a month, The Daily Times reports.

Musharraf, Malik, other top PPP leaders to be quizzed in Bhutto assassination