“Yes, exhume it (the body). A hundred per cent. I would like it to be exhumed. Because I know for sure there is no bullet wound other than on the right side. Whether it was a bullet or a strike, I don’t want to comment, I don’t know,” Musharraf said in an interview to Newsweek.

“This area (where she was killed) was known to be dangerous. There was a death threat, intelligence that there would be an attack, and we told her, yet she wanted to go.... She went into a dangerous place, and if you get out of the (bullet-proof) vehicle, you are responsible. All the others sitting inside the vehicle were safe,” he said.
About the allegations that the government was complicit in the killing, he said “I refuse to listen to such accusations. I am the government, OK? I am not feudal, and I am not tribal.”

When asked if he had seen the X-rays of Bhutto, he said “Yes,” adding “I am a soldier, I’ve seen a lot of bullet wounds. A bullet wound is a small hole, and if the bullet goes through it makes a big hole on the other side. Now that is what I understand to be a bullet wound. This was not that, although I am not an expert. But how does it absolve the government if it was a bullet or not?”

On the postmortem, he said “everything is not black and white here. It would have very big political ramifications. If I just ordered the body exhumed, that would be careless, unless (Bhutto’s) people agreed. But they will not.”