The prime minister and interior minister have rejected the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)’s demand for foreign experts to assist in the inquiry into last Thursday’s suicide bombings in Karachi, while PPP chief Benazir Bhutto has insisted the government isn’t equipped to handle such an investigation.Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said foreign experts would not be brought into the investigation. “I would categorically reject this,” he told reporters in Islamabad. “We are conducting the investigation in a very objective manner. Our investigation teams and security agencies are competent enough to investigate such incidents. The political parties should have trust and confidence in them.”
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Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told a group of federal ministers that he was confident that the investigation being carried out by Pakistani law-enforcement agencies would lead to the perpetrators of the crime. He said the agencies had successfully investigated terrorist attacks in the past and arrested those responsible.