Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) figures said they believed the reports regarding Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari were part of a plot by the country’s Inter-Service Intelligence [ISI] agency to damage Hina’s reputation, reported The Daily Telegraph.
The PPP figures told the paper the ISI blamed their minister for her part in facilitating a UN investigation into thousands of missing people detained allegedly by the security forces.
One PPP official told The Daily Telegraph that the ISI expects the United Nations’ Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances to recommend senior army and intelligence officials be charged for their role and blame Hina for allowing the delegation into the country.
“They are not happy with her,” the official said. “The UN mission received a cold reception but Hina was called in by the president to meet him and the army chief. She crossed some red line.”
The paper said Claims of an affair between Hina and Bilawal fuelled feverish speculation in Pakistan since they were reported in a Bangladeshi tabloid.
