Bhutto Death: UN Report Cites Lapses
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April 17, 2010, Saturday
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PAKISTAN said yesterday it would step up its probe into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto after a UN report blamed security forces for failing to protect her.
Bhutto, a former prime minister, was killed on December 27, 2007 in a gun and suicide-bomb attack as she was leaving a rally in Rawalpindi, where she was campaigning to return her Pakistan People's Party to power in elections after returning from nearly nine years in self-imposed exile.
The three-member UN panel, which was not tasked with unmasking the killers, said Bhutto's death could have been avoided if the then Pervez Musharraf government and security agencies had taken adequate measures. The report was hailed by the PPP, which now governs Pakistan and is led by President Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's widower.
Bhutto, a former prime minister, was killed on December 27, 2007 in a gun and suicide-bomb attack as she was leaving a rally in Rawalpindi, where she was campaigning to return her Pakistan People's Party to power in elections after returning from nearly nine years in self-imposed exile.
The three-member UN panel, which was not tasked with unmasking the killers, said Bhutto's death could have been avoided if the then Pervez Musharraf government and security agencies had taken adequate measures. The report was hailed by the PPP, which now governs Pakistan and is led by President Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's widower.
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