Some very positive developments in the affair:
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that British investigators are heading to Pakistan to help clear up the confusion surrounding Thursday’s assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf talks about Benazir Bhutto’s “martyrdom” on Wednesday.
“I am very thankful to [British] Prime Minister Gordon Brown that when I made this request he accepted that,” Musharraf said in a nationally televised address.
The Scotland Yard team, he said, “will solve all the confusion” surrounding how Bhutto died last week.
Musharraf expressed his condolences about the killing of Bhutto, who he said “has been martyred by terrorists.”
Allowing a Scotland Yard team into the country, providing that their work is not hampered by authorities, could go a long way towards establishing the central facts of the case in a manner that Pakistanis (and others) can trust. It’s also interesting to see Musharraf going out of his way to acknowledge Bhutto’s status as a martyr. We’ll have to see how this plays out but it’s obvious that he is under substantial pressure.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 am
i just think he may have been involved. just a thought
January 4th, 2008 at 12:22 am
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