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| Two more join Scotland Yard team in Pak to probe Bhutto killing | | | Islamabad | Jan 9
Two more British investigators today joined the Scotland Yard team in Pakistan to probe the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto.
A five-member team from Metropolitan Police's Counter-Terrorism Command had arrived here on January four to investigate the killing of Bhutto in a suicide attack after her election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27.
Sources said the two investigators who arrived today on a British Airways flight were specialists in questioning and interviewing people.
The other members of the Scotland Yard team are forensic and technical experts.
Since its arrival, the team has reconstructed the assassination of Bhutto at the historic Liaquat Bagh ground in Rawalpindi and questioned eyewitnesses and persons who were injured in the attack.
They have inspected Bhutto's bomb-damaged armoured vehicle and body parts of the victims in a mortuary in Rawalpindi.
They have also interviewed the doctors who treated Bhutto in Rawalpindi General Hospital.
President Pervez Musharraf, who requested British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to send the Scotland Yard team, has urged it to get to the "bottom of the issue" in its investigation.
When the British sleuths called on him yesterday, Musharraf told them "to make all-out efforts to get to the bottom of the issue, for which the government is ready to further provide all kinds of cooperation", presidential spokesman Maj Gen (retired) Rashid Qureshi said.
Musharraf also asked the team whether it needed more support from Pakistan's intelligence and security agencies.
"You do your best and we will do our best to know the truth about the death of the Pakistan People's Party leader," Musharraf was quoted as saying by Qureshi.
"We want to know how it happened and why it happened," Musharraf said.
Qureshi said the team would receive the needed support from any Pakistani agency, organisation or individual.
The PPP has said the Scotland Yard team is operating with its "hands tied" and demanded a UN-led inquiry on the lines of the investigation into the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. |
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