President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that the government has invited Scotland Yard to help Pakistani investigators in the probe of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination in Rawalpindi last week in a gun and suicide bomb attack. In an address to the nation over the official Pakistan Television, Musharraf said he had requested British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to send Scotland Yard experts and he had accepted the request.
Musharraf said, however, he was convinced that two rebel militant leaders -- Baitullah Mehsud and Fazal ullah from tribal Waziristan and Swat areas -- were responsible for the assassination of Bhutto on Thursday. "I want to declare with certainty that these people had martyred Benazir Bhutto," he said.
| Both of whom are conveniently unavailable, and neither of whom are likely to be captured and forced to confess anytime soon ... |
However, the move to invite a team from Scotland Yard was categorically rejected by Asif Zardari, the co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party and widower of Benazir Bhutto, who insisted that the United Nations should conduct the probe in the killing of Bhutto. "Why the government did not accept our demand to invite Scotland Yard experts after the Oct. 18 suicide bomb attack in Karachi?" he said. "Had it happened we would have averted the catastrophic martyrdom of BB (Benazir Bhutto) Sahiba."
| Perhaps. Now then, the question of the moment is, do you want Scotland Yard to figure out who whacked your wife? |
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He declared that Pakistan's army would be deployed "during and beyond elections" to ensure peace, law and order in the country.
| Except in Wazoo and the North West Frontier Area ... |