New Delhi: Slain Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had a premonition two months before her assassination and had appealed to the US to look into her security, but Washington chose to look the other way.
This information came out of top secret US diplomatic cables that were accessed and released by WikiLeaks. The cables show that Bhutto wrote a letter to US Ambassador Anne Patterson after a terror strike on a PPP rally in October 2007 that left 130 people dead. Bhutto was gunned down 2 months later.
Benazir made the request to the US Ambassador immediately after a terror strike killed more than 130 people at a rally organized by the Pakistan Peoples Party on October 18, 2007 in Karachi. The rally was organised to welcome her
after her eight years' exile in Dubai and London.
According to the cables, Bhutto told the US Ambassador that she did not believe that the Pakistan Government was giving the security that she needed and she was under severe threat.
Suspecting Musharraf administration's hand in Karachi attack, Bhutto also complained of shoddy Pakistan Government probe into Karachi terror strike, it said.
But Anne Patterson, whatever reasons, decided not to do that, it said.
Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007, after departing a party rally in Rawalpindi, two weeks before the scheduled Pakistani general election of 2008.
(With additional information from PTI)
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