Pak chief diplomat wants UN probe to find Bhutto's killer
Pak's chief diplomat questioning the previous Musharraf govt in Benazir Bhutto's assassination, thereby, suggesting a wider conspiracy was behind her death.
By Agencies |
NEW YORK: Pakistan's chief diplomat on Sunday questioned the guilt of a key Taliban suspect fingered by the CIA and the previous Musharraf government in Benazir Bhutto's assassination, suggesting a wider conspiracy was behind her death.
On Thursday the United Nations agreed to help in setting up an independent commission to investigate those whom the Pakistani foreign minister called "the conspirers, the financiers, the perpetrators, that led to motivating this assassination, and bring them to justice."
The assassination last December of the popular former prime minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party stunned Pakistan and the world, and quickly set off a wide range of conspiracy theories, including the idea that Pakistan's powerful internal security agencies were involved and that Musharraf was culpable, or at least failed to prevent her slaying.
"Why a person, who had come with a message of reconciliation, why was she eliminated? Who were the forces behind it? What objectives did they have? Why were they considering Benazir Bhutto a threat to them?" asked Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi declined to endorse accusations by President Pervez Musharraf's government and the CIA that Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani militant commander often blamed for suicide attacks, had orchestrated Bhutto's Dec. 27 killing at a campaign rally before parliamentary elections.
On Thursday the United Nations agreed to help in setting up an independent commission to investigate those whom the Pakistani foreign minister called "the conspirers, the financiers, the perpetrators, that led to motivating this assassination, and bring them to justice."
The assassination last December of the popular former prime minister and leader of the Pakistan People's Party stunned Pakistan and the world, and quickly set off a wide range of conspiracy theories, including the idea that Pakistan's powerful internal security agencies were involved and that Musharraf was culpable, or at least failed to prevent her slaying.
"Why a person, who had come with a message of reconciliation, why was she eliminated? Who were the forces behind it? What objectives did they have? Why were they considering Benazir Bhutto a threat to them?" asked Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi declined to endorse accusations by President Pervez Musharraf's government and the CIA that Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani militant commander often blamed for suicide attacks, had orchestrated Bhutto's Dec. 27 killing at a campaign rally before parliamentary elections.
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