Musharraf made a good point recently during an interview in which he was questioned about Bhutto’s death. Most people have wondered why a married woman with three children would stick her head out of the roof of a vehicle, knowing that there were people gunning for her. What respect did that show for the reality that she was hated by many? How responsible was that, given that she had a family? Musharaff indicated that only one person died who was in the car that day and that one person was the one who foolishly stuck her head out of the sun roof—Bhutto.

“She was informed of the threat to her, the first time about three to four weeks back when she wanted to the same place,” Musharraf said. “The intelligence agencies knew there was a threat and we told her not to go. …

“So therefore she went on her own volition, ignoring the threat.”

The park, often a place for political gatherings, is named after Pakistan’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, who was assassinated in 1951.

More than 1,000 police were patrolling the park where Bhutto’s convoy passed last Thursday, and government snipers patrolled each building’s rooftop, Musharraf said. Bhutto was traveling in a bulletproof vehicle, and had handpicked the head of her security detail, he said.

Musharraf pointed out that no one else in the vehicle was injured when gunshots rang out, followed by suicide blast that killed nearly two dozen people in the crowd.

“Nobody gets hurt (inside the car), only she when she … decides to rise above the sunroof,” he said.

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