GIK wanted Benazir declared ineligible, says Roedad Khan



ISLAMABAD - Former bureaucrat Roedad Khan has said the then president Ghulam Ishaq Khan wanted to have former prime minister Benazir Bhutto declared ineligible and in this regard assigned him (Roedad) the task of her ‘accountability’.Roedad, former interior secretary and a close friend of Ghulam Ishaq Khan, disclosed this during an interview with a private TV channel. Roedad said the former chief of army staff Gen Aslam Beg had said in his address at Aiwan-e-Sadr that ‘no one can separate the Army from politics’. “No prime minister can function without GHQ’s consent,” Roedad claimed, calling GHQ ‘Pakistan’s centre of power’. To a question, he said he was neither a member of any election cell at Aiwan-e-Sadr nor did he have any knowledge of it.

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