Benazir Bhutto...

Holding former President General Pervez Musharraf responsible for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Pakistan's High  Commissioner to Britain Wajid Shamsul Hassan has said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud could not have proceeded with his plans of assassinating Bhutto without Musharraf's nod.

A private television channel reported Hassan, as saying that if Benazir would have been alive, trouble for Musharraf would have doubled.

"Had Benazir been alive, Musharraf would have been facing legal action for murdering former Balochistan governor Nawab Akbar Bugti, and removing the chief justice of Pakistan," The Daily Times quoted Hassan, as saying.

Hassan said Musharraf had offered a much 'bigger' amnesty under the National Reconciliation Ordinance to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, which allowed him to leave the country easily following the military coup in 1998.

People across Pakistan paid tributes to slain former premier Benazir Bhutto and offered special prayers on the second anniversary of her assassination even as her close aides called on the government to identify and bring her killers to justice.

The Pakistan People's Party organised special meetings and prayers in cities and towns all over the country, including Bhutto's ancestral town of Naudero in Sindh province, to commemorate her death anniversary. Bhutto's widower President Asif Ali Zardari travelled to Naudero to participate in meetings there.