Another group of Scotland Yard investigators arrived in Pakistan yesterday to
assist in the inquiry into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir
Bhutto, the News Network International news agency reported.
The three-member team would join their seven colleagues who have been in
Pakistan since Jan. 4, said the report.
The British police have been providing technical assistance to Pakistani
investigators to hold inquiry into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, who was
killed on Dec. 27 after she addressed a big public meeting in the garrison city
of Rawalpindi.
President Pervez Musharraf said last week he was "not fully satisfied" with
the investigation into the killing by the Pakistani police and had requested to
the British prime minister to send Scotland Yard detectives.
Bhutto's People's Party (PPP) has called for a wider inquiry by the United
Nations. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said on Monday that Pakistan had not
approached the UN for Bhutto's murder probe.
The team from Scotland Yard has visited the scene of Ms Bhutto's murder and
also recorded statements of an injured police officer on duty as well as injured
party activists. They have also examined the bullet-proof car of Bhutto and body
parts of the suicide bomber.
The Scotland Yard called on Musharraf on Tuesday and sought his support for
their investigation. Musharraf assured the British police that he wanted to
reach the bottom as to who were behind Bhutto's assassination.
Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said there were no
restrictions on the movement of the British police and that they could stay as
long as they wanted.
There has been different accounts of what caused Bhutto's death. Local media
quoted PPP sources as saying that Bhutto was killed by gun shots. While an
initial government report said she was killed by smashing her head on the
sunroof lever of her vehicle when dodging the attack.