'GIK wanted Benazir declared ineligible'

ISLAMABAD: Ex bureaucrat Roedad Khan Saturday 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'.

He disclosed this during an exclusive interview in Geo's program 'Jirga' hosted by Saleem Saafi. The program will go on air on Geo News at 8:00 PM Sunday.

Roedad Khan said the former chief of army staff, Gen (Retd) Aslam Beg had said in his address in Aiwan-e-Sadr that 'no one can separate the army from politics'.

"No prime minister can function without GHQ's consent," Roedad Khan claimed, calling GHQ 'Pakistan's centeral source of power'.

To a question, he said he was neither a member of any election cell in Aiwan-e-Sadr nor did he have any knowledge of it.