A team of British police arrived here on Friday to help investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the News Network International (NNI) news agency reported.
A five-member team of Scotland Yard will join the Pakistani investigators, NNI quoted officials as saying.
Officials said that the British police team would be informed about the evidences and eye witnesses accounts of the killing of Bhutto. The Scotland Yard team will visit Liaquat Bagh, where Bhutto had addressed the rally. Bhutto was killed when she was waving to her supporters outside the main gate of Liaquat Bagh on Dec. 27.
President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday said that he had sought help from Britain into the investigation into the killing of Bhutto.
On Thursday, Musharraf said he was not satisfied with the investigation by Pakistani agencies so far. He told foreign journalists at the President House that he did not believe intelligence agencies had ordered any cover-up in the probe of Bhutto's assassination.
Bhutto's People's Party (PPP) has said it wanted the investigation into Benazir's death to be conducted by the United Nations instead of Scotland Yard.
Musharraf said authorities were not responsible for a security lapse that led to the killing of Bhutto. "In the last three months, there have been 19 suicide bombings, and most of them were against the military, against the intelligence," he said.
Source:Xinhua
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