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2008-01-03 India-Pakistan

Pakistan Accepts Help From Britain to Probe Bhutto Assassination

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Ooooh, bit of a tightrope here. You want to accept enough 'international help' so you don't look like the scheming weasels you are, but not so much they find out who was ultimately behind the whole thing. Could be tricky. Expect some mid-level corpses as a firewall.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-03 00:46|| 2008-01-03 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 This is not the first time Scotland Yard were invited to Pakistan.

Back in 1951 Pakistan asked the UK for help after the country's first Prime Minister, Liaqat Ali Khan, was shot dead in what was then called the Company Bagh (park) in Rawalpindi.

The park was renamed Liaqat Bagh in his honour. Fifty-six years later it was in this same park that Ms Bhutto's attacker, or attackers, struck.

For reasons never disclosed, the British investigator was asked to leave Pakistan only few weeks into his investigations. The Pakistani authorities never revealed anything about the investigation.

In September, 1996 when another politician was killed outside his home in Karachi and the demand for help from Scotland Yard was again heard in the country.

This time the dead politician was Murtaza Bhutto, the brother of Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto was at that time prime minister and she enlisted the help of British Home Office forensic experts and former experts of Scotland Yard.

Posted by john frum 2008-01-03 09:12|| 2008-01-03 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Pak-Land itself is a rotten corpse.

"HelP" from the UK is but another piss warm poultice slopped on the whole rotten corpus delicti.

Posted by Lashkar-e-Dawg">Lashkar-e-Dawg 2008-01-03 10:50|| 2008-01-03 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Expect some mid-level corpses as a firewall.

Where's Jack Ruby when you need him?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-03 14:31|| 2008-01-03 14:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Okay. Who's pissed me off lately...

Posted by The Head of Scotland Yard 2008-01-03 15:32|| 2008-01-03 15:32|| Front Page Top

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