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| Benazir's estranged sister-in-law claims ISI approached her | | |
Islamabad, Oct 11: Ghinwa Bhutto, estranged sister-in-law of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, has claimed that the ISI had approached her before the 2002 general elections suggesting that her Shahid Bhutto Party contest the polls as part of the pro-Musharraf front floated by the government.
Ghinwa whose husband Murtaza Bhutto-- Benazir's brother-- was killed during the former Prime Minister's tenure, said the ISI also offered her a federal minister's post, but she rejected the offer.
The ISI asked her to contest either from the platform of the national alliance, of which former president Farooq Leghari and former Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi were top leaders or that of the Sindh Democratic Alliance.
She was told that after winning the election she would become a minister and thus be in a better position to have her husband's murder case, which she blames on Benazir.
Ghinwa, who heads her party Shahid Bhutto (SB), said she had rejected the offer out of hand, saying instead of making such a deal she would like to have the system reformed so that everybody, including herself, got justice.
Consequent to her refusal she was disqualified for the general elections because she had declined an offer from the powers that be, she was quoted as saying at a meeting yesterday by local daily 'Dawn'.
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