Islamabad, April 16 (Inditop.com) Pakistan has expressed satisfaction at a UN probe report, which blames the laxity of then president Pervez Musharraf’s government for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
In his initial reaction, presidential spokesperson Farhatullah Babar expressed satisfaction over the report and said a response would be given after a detailed study of the report, Online news agency reported.
He said the report had given a direction to the investigations being conducted by the government and this would now be speeded up.
The report, presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York Thursday, also clearly placed responsibility on the previous Musharraf government and exonerated President Asif Ali Zardari and the family, he added.
The three-member UN team investigating the events and circumstances surrounding Bhutto’s assassination in 2007 has blamed the then Musharraf government for the murder, saying it failed to provide adequate security cover to the former prime minister.
Although no functionary of the former government has been accused of complicity in the murder, the 65-page report blamed Musharraf’s government, particularly its police and security network of negligence.
Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack Dec 27, 2007 as she left a political rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi.
Pakistan had in July 2008 sought a UN probe into Bhutto’s killing after its own investigations and one by Scotland Yard failed to make headway.
This is largely because the spot where Bhutto was killed was hosed down soon after, destroying evidence that could have been gathered.
The UN probe had begun in June 2009 and is believed to have cost the Pakistani government Rs.200 million.
