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| Pakistan to begin new Bhutto probe |
| 2010-04-17 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] After a scornful UN report held Pakistan's former regime responsible for Benazir Bhutto's assassination, the government calls for revival of investigations. The United Nations inquiry, led by Chile's UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, disclosed in its report on Thursday that Pakistan's spy agencies had "severely hampered" the initial probe. Commenting on the report, Pakistan's presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said, "The government of the day was responsible first for the criminal neglect in providing security to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and second by hushing up available evidence to cover up the crime." "Persons named in the report for negligence or complicity in the conspiracy will be investigated, and cases will be brought against them," he said. When the new investigation begins, the fragile civilian government of Pakistani President Asif Zardari, Bhutto's widower who took over her Pakistan People's Party after her death and led it to victory in a February 2008 election, is almost certainly to clash with the country's powerful military and with the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, or ISI. Aides to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who led the country from 1999 to 2008, angrily rejected the UN report. Bhutto was killed on December 27, 2007, as she left a political rally in Rawalpindi after a man in the crowd first shot at her and then blew himself up next to her vehicle. |
| Posted by:Fred |