The controversy over the unanswered questions surrounding the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister, has taken another twist after the country's Interior Minister reportedly said he would reveal the identity of the killers in a forthcoming book.
Pakistani media reported that the famously outspoken Rehman Malik said he would name Bhutto's Pakistani Taleban assassins and provide other new details about her killing in a speech next week to members of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party in Chitral.
He said the information would be made public on December 27, the fifth anniversary of her killing. He also claimed his counter-terrorism efforts had resulted in the fracturing of the Pakistan Taleban and said he would offer an amnesty to militants willing to give up violence.
"It is a fact that the majority of [Pakistan Taleban] activists are those who do it out of poverty and unemployment," he said, according to the Dawn newspaper. Bhutto, who twice served as Prime Minister, was killed in 2007 after returning to Pakistan following a decade in exile to launch a political comeback.
She was being driven away after campaigning in Rawalpindi, when a man fired three shots at her as she stood up through the sunroof of her vehicle. Then a large bomb exploded, killing 24 people.
