"We all have our interest in conflict resolution in Pakistan. Several groups somehow choose negotiation over confrontation and arrived at an enlightened compromise that there might be peace in Pakistan which is good for Pakistan and give security to India and the whole region," Jackson told reporters while on a visit to the capital to deliver a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi.
Bhutto co-authored the book with her long-time friend and associate Mark Siegel in the last few months of her life.
According to the Daily Times, the book embodies her vision for the Islamic world.
She completed it just before her assassination on December 27 last year in Rawalpindi.
The National Book Club’s Book and Author Committee is hosting the launch.The two men — 15-year-old Aitzaz Shah and Sher Zaman — were produced in court under tight security on Saturday. Shah had earlier told investigators that he was next in line to target Benazir, who was assassinated in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi on December 27.
City Police had booked the two under Sections 302/24, 435/36, 120-B, 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act and 4/5 of the Explosive Act.
According to the Daily Times, Judge Chaudhry Habibullah has ordered the accused to be produced before him again on February 12.
Assassinated former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has revealed in her forthcoming book – “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West” – that President Pervez Musharraf’s regime never delivered on whatever it had promised to her Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) between 2002 and 2007. According to the Daily Times, the negotiations between the two went on by fits and starts, and failed every time “because I (Benazir) insisted on a road map to democracy.”
The will dated October 16 says that she was proud of the PPP leadership and desirous of a federal and democratic Pakistan.
Paying glowing tribute to PPP Founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, she said his steadfastness against dictatorship should be followed by the party at all costs.
The one-page will clearly mentions Asif Ali Zardari as the next chairman of PPP. She wrote that Zardari would lead the party after her.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief and former premier Nawaz Sharif has denied saying he would complete Benazir Bhutto’s mission. Talking to a private TV channel here on Tuesday, Sharif, however, expressed solidarity with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Nawaz said he “had made the mistake of his life” by promoting Musharraf to the army chief in 1998.
Cassettes of Benazir’s speeches are being circulated and aired in the camps.
Some people are arriving by foot for the solemn ceremony that will be held under strict security, reports The News.
Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide bomb-cum gun shot attack in Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh area on December 27, 2007.
The central commemoration ceremony in connection with the chehlum of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has begun with the recitation of the Quran (Quran Khawni) in Garhi Khuda Bux in the country's Sindh Province on Thursday morning. The Chehlum sitting was started after the formal recitation from the Quran and now the Quran Khawni is in progress. The chehlum is being held in the premises of Benazir’s mausoleum.
According to programme, the central ceremony will feature Noha, Naat Khawnwi and duas.
Garhi Khuda Bux, Feb 7 : Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has vowed to take revenge of the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto in a democratic way.
Addressing the chehlum of Benazir Bhutto here, he said: “Our leader Benazir always attempted to effect change in the prevalent system, we will change this system at all costs as this was the mission of Benazir Bhutto.”
“We will avenge Benazir's martyrdom in a democratic way.
Scotland Yard detectives probing the December 27 assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto are likely to agree with the findings of the President Musharraf-backed caretaker government that she was a victim of a head injury and not shot dead. According to a report by The Times, Scotland Yard risks inflaming the already heated pre-election political atmosphere in Pakistan today when it delivers its report on Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
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