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Benazir UN probe team to visit London, Washington

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations commission probing the Benazir Bhutto murder case will visit London and Washington within the next couple of weeks to identify the facts and circumstances behind her December 2007 assassination.

Sources said the commission would visit New Scotland Yard, headquarters of the British police force that conducted an earlier investigation into Benazir’s assassination. A report by Scotland Yard investigators, submitted in February, stated that Benazir was killed by the force of the suicide bomb and not by a bullet, a conclusion that was received with disbelief by her supporters and medical experts. They said the commission would also interview former president Pervez Musharraf, who is currently living in London. They said the commission believed its work would be incomplete without interviewing the principal, and perhaps the most authoritative, personality in Pakistan at the time of Benazir’s murder. They said the team would also interview Nahid Khan, who was Benazir’s personal aide at the time. In Washington, the commission would meet officials of various intelligence agencies and interview CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who reportedly received an email through Benazir’s confidant in Washington, Mark Siegel, sources said. The email said that if anything happened to her (Benazir), she would hold Musharraf ‘responsible’ because his government did not do enough to protect her. They said Siegel, a long-time Benazir confidant, would also be interviewed. The three-member commission, led by Chile's UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, visited Pakistan in July. A team of seven experts stayed behind to conduct further investigations.

The commission also called on President Asif Ali Zardari and held talks with senior government leaders and officials. The team also visited Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi. app

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