Re: UN ready to probe BB Assasination
Well it looks PPP has almost conceded to Scotland Yard investigation…
http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=12106
**PPP ready to cooperate with Scotland Yard **
Sherry insists on probing the incident through UN commission
By Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: Information Secretary Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Sherry Rehman on Friday said the party will fully cooperate with the Scotland Yard team probing the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
“The Scotland Yard team will only carry out a police type investigations but we stick to our demand for probing the conspiracy of assassination of Benazir Bhutto through the United Nation Commission,” she said while talking to The News on Friday.
She also rubbished all assertions by the government officials that implied that Benazir Bhutto was herself responsible for her death, as she did not care for her security. “This is an insult to the Shaheed leader and all those who lost their lives with her,” she added.
She said the regime is essentially trying to say that they all deserved to die because they attended a public rally, which, she added, is their constitutional right. She said rather than admitting its own failure in safeguarding the life and property of Pakistani citizens, the regime is trying to tell people that “you will be responsible for the consequences if you try to exercise your fundamental rights”
“By insisting that Benazir Bhutto was responsible for her own death the regime is making a laughing stock of Pakistan all over the world, especially when we have all seen television footage of the shots being fired at her,” she added.
Sherry Rehman said the regime’s ludicrous statements describe the length they would go to hide the failure of the security apparatus that was responsible to ensure Benazir’s safety. “The video footage clearly shows the absence of adequate security around the PPP leader just when she was leaving the Liaquat Bagh premises and after. None of us were scanned when we went in, and nobody was scanned as we left as well,” she added.
She said the security lapses were so huge that Benazir Bhutto was left totally exposed to the assassins. The Mohtarma was clearly shot at, and the blast happened minutes later. The October 18 blasts followed a similar pattern. There was firing first, followed by the blasts," Sherry recalled.
The PPP leader also turned down the government assertions that hosing down Liaquat Bagh after the incident was “inefficiency”. “It’s very easy to label a criminal act as inefficiency. Anybody dealing with the case would know about the importance of preserving the sanctity of the crime scene,” she added.
She said the fact that it was hosed down the very next day on the pretext that traffic flow would get disrupted – even though there was no traffic on the roads for next three days – demonstrates that the regime was trying to sweep the issue under the carpet. “We have not named anybody as the possible killer, but people who have been trying to conceal the evidence need to be brought to the fore,” she insisted.
Sherry Rehman said that the regime gave a royal impunity to Bhutto’s killers by failing to take action against the killers behind the October 19 blasts. “They never heeded Benazir Bhutto’s demands that the inquiry be conducted by an international investigation team,” she added.
As a result, she said the inquiry today stands dangerously inconclusive and ends up in covering up the death of 170 innocent people. “This gave Benazir Bhutto’s killers a positive signal that they can go ahead with their mission since the regime’s non-seriousness towards a proper inquiry has always worked to the advantage of the hidden forces trying to destabilise Pakistan,” she added.
Given the enormity of the incident and its impact on Pakistan as well the region’s stability, she said the PPP has asked for an independent enquiry to be held under the auspices of the United Nations.
“We have welcomed the UN Security Council’s resolution on Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, and hope that all international forces will cooperate in unearthing the organisers, financiers, sponsors and perpetrators of this heinous crime,” she added. Sherry Rehman said the PPP also thanks the UK government for the security they have agreed to provide to its Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while in the UK.