Karachi: Former Pakistan Premier Benazir Bhutto's party today stepped up pressure on government for a speedy probe into the suicide attack on her motorcade by registering a complaint with police in which she again referred to three unnamed officials who posed a threat to her life.

Senior leaders of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), including her close aide Sherry Rehman, Syed Qaim Ali Shah and Aftab Shahban Mirani, went to Bahadurabad police station and submitted a letter from the party chief for the registration of an FIR. The letter sought speedy action for tracing and apprehending the perpetrators of the Thursday night terrorist attack which left nearly 140 people dead but Bhutto escaped unhurt.

It also mentioned that Bhutto had written a letter to President Pervez Musharraf on October 16, two days before her return to the country from eight years of self-exile, in which she had said that she feared three government officials would try to assassinate her. Bhutto, at her press conference on Friday, had first publicly spoken about the three officials but did not name them. Her letter to the police also did not name these persons.

However, leading Pakistani newspaper The News quoted unnamed sources as identifying the three persons as Sindh Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, who is also the cousin of the country's ruling PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, and Intelligence Bureau chief Brig (Retd) Ejaz Shah. The sources also said that Bhutto had demanded their immediate removal.

Source : PTI