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.
The letter, titled "President Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto and Fazlur Rehman's murder plan", read: "We have received this information that Osama bin Laden has issued the order to kill President Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto and Fazlur Rehman. He (Laden) has planned to send his courier, who is a national of Pakistan and a resident of Multan, named Musa Tariq, through Waziristan with explosives to be used in executing the murder plots.
"On coming Sunday -- which is December 22 -- this person will be in the area of Dera Ismail Khan," it read.
The letter's last three lines read: "Osama bin Laden is personally supervising this entire plan and for this reason, he has shifted to Afghanistan."
The ISI requested the Interior Ministry to make urgent security arrangements. The copies of the letter were also dispatched to the Military Intelligence Directorate, General Staff Branch and General Headquarters, Rawalpindi.
After receiving the letter from the ISI, the General Staff Branch of the Military Operations Directorate of General Headquarters, sent a letter to then-Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah on December 20 .
Six days before Bhutto's assassination, another letter was issued warning about the murder plots.
Before both of these letters were written, on December 11, 2007, ISI's then-chief Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj's Colonel for DG Intelligence Fayyaz Hussain Chaudhary had written a letter to then-chief of the Crisis Management Cell of the Interior Ministry.
It was mentioned in the third letter that the terrorist and extremist groups related to Al Qaeda had planned to murder Bhutto and her then-security adviser Rehman Malik during the election campaign.
In the letter, the Interior Ministry was requested to make adequate security arrangements. Following Bhutto's assassination, a short letter was sent to Laden after two days.
The text of the letter read: "We have taken revenge for our brothers and sisters of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid." It was recovered from Laden's home.
"Asif Ali Zardari is responsible for the Bhutto family's demise and is involved in the deaths of Benazir and Murtaza Bhutto," he said in a startling address directed at the three Bhutto-Zardari children, the Bhutto family and the people of Sindh.
"Every time there is a murder, the first thing that needs to be seen is who has the most to gain from the death. In this case, I had everything to lose as I was in power and the murder put my government in a difficult situation," the former military chief said.
"There was just one person that had everything to gain from Benazir's assassination and that was Asif Ali Zardari," he added, proceeding into what he termed as his analysis of the case.
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."
Going further into his analysis Musharraf said: "The evidence is clear that Baitullah Mehsud and his people were involved in the murder, but who had asked them to target Benazir Bhutto - it could not have been me, the group hated me and the feeling was mutual."
"It is a known fact that I wanted Mehsud dead and so did the government of Pakistan, after his group had attempted to kill me," Musharraf added.
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.
Now, the inside pictures of the ceremony are now going viral. Bakhtawar took to Instagram to post a beautiful picture of herself and her fiancé from her big day and captioned it as,” Will the real Mahmood Choudhry please stand up #engaged.” The bride looked radiant in a light pink bridal outfit with a Mughal art shawl paired with it. Meanwhile, Mahmood wore an all-white kurta-pathani with a shawl over it. The backdrop had Benazir’s wooden portrait placed in the middle with pink flowers around the location.
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According to reports, the engagement was a low-key affair with only 150 guests. The guests were asked to bring negative Covid reports before entering the venue in order to ensure the health and safety of everyone.
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