Islamabad, Sept 5 : Senior PPP leader Syeda Abida Hussain has said that the Wednesday’s assassination bid on Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani could be the handiwork of “pro-Musharraf elements” who, according to her, were not happy over the ouster of former president.

She said that it was during the period of Pervez Musharraf that commitments with regard to the war on terror were made.

“It was during this period that an amount of 45 billion dollars came into the country and some people got fiscal gains beyond their imagination. Such people would never like their chief patron out of power,” The News quoted her as saying in a TV interview.