The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) today rejected a report by British detectives into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, saying it had “achieved nothing”.

Benazir Bhutto died of a “severe head injury” and not a gunshot wound in an attack by a lone terrorist, Scotland Yard said today.

Police have arrested two more suspects for the suicide attack that killed Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as thousands of her followers gathered at her tomb to end their mourning and launch her party’s campaign for this month’s parliamentary elections.

The Pakistani military has pounded an extremist stronghold near the Afghan border where a rebel leader blamed for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is believed to be hiding, officials said.

Pakistani authorities were today continuing to question a 15-year-old boy who has confessed to be being part of the team that killed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, marking what could be the first major breakthrough in the investigation.

Security officials in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province said today they arrested a teenager allegedly involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last month.

Nearly half of Pakistanis suspect that government agencies or government-linked politicians killed Benazir Bhutto, an opinion poll showed, highlighting the popular mistrust of the country’s president ahead of elections next month.

Scotland Yard forensic experts investigating the assassination of Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto are unlikely to discover who killed her, her supporters said today.

British detectives investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto will not be hindered by government restrictions, President Pervez Musharraf promised today.

British forensic experts assisting the investigation into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination met President Pervez Musharraf today to share their initial findings.

Benazir Bhutto’s husband today accused elements within Pakistan’s government of responsibility for her murder and urged Britain and the US to support a UN investigation into the killing.

British anti-terror officers were flying to Pakistan today to help investigate the death of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

Supporters of former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto insisted today that a UN probe was the only way to reveal the truth behind her murder.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said today that he had asked for help from Scotland Yard in investigating Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.

Election officials recommended today that parliamentary polls scheduled for January 8 be delayed for an unspecified period following unrest triggered by the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

Benazir Bhutto’s husband, Asif Ali Zardari (pictured), who took effective control of his murdered wife’s party, is a former Cabinet minister who spent eight years in prison on corruption accusations and is known as “Mr 10 per cent” for allegedly taking bribes.

Pakistan said today it did not need foreign assistance to investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, despite deepening controversy over how the former prime minister died and who killed her.

A commander of pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan rejected government claims that he was behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, his spokesman said.

Al-Qaida and the Taliban were behind the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan insisted today.

The pope today condemned the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as a “brutal terrorist attack” and prayed that further violence would be avoided following her death.

More than 20 people died today in a wave of violence that swept across Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

Switzerland said today it had closed an investigation into Benazir Bhutto for alleged money laundering, but a parallel probe into her husband’s activities will continue.

Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered for the funeral of Benazir Bhutto today in front of her family mausoleum.

Many national leaders condemned the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, but few ventured any public advice to Pakistan's leaders on how to deal with potentially explosive passions unleashed by the terrorist strike.

The funeral procession for Benazir Bhutto began in Pakistan today with her plain wooden coffin being carried through her ancestral village by supporters.

Benazir Bhutto supporters ransacked banks and burned train stations in furious rampages across Pakistan today.

A spokesman for a paramilitary group claims security forces in southern Pakistan have been given permission to shoot at rioters.

Pakistan's prime minister said this morning the government has no immediate plan to postpone January 8 elections following the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

Murdered Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will be laid to rest near her father in the family's ancestral village today.

Islamist websites are reporting that al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the FBI said today, as rioting spread across Pakistan and hopes for democracy hung by a thread.

Benazir Bhutto’s enraged supporters burned vehicles and attacked shops across Pakistan after the charismatic former prime minister was shot and killed today by an assassin as she waved to supporters from the sunroof of her armored vehicle.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously tonight to condemn the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, urging all nations to help bring those responsible for "this reprehensible act" to justice.

Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif today announced his party was boycotting next month's parliamentary elections following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto - and demanded that the country's president resign immediately.

President Mary McAleese has expressed her shock and sadness at the assassination of Pakistan’s former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, earlier today.

US President George Bush today demanded that those responsible for the assassination of Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto be brought to justice.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined international condemnation of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto today, saying she had been killed by “cowards afraid of democracy”.

Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suspected al-Qaida attack as she left an election rally today, throwing the country into turmoil.

Leaders across the world are today united in their condemnation of the assassination of Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has convened an emergency meeting with his senior staff today to discuss whether to postpone the election in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's death, an official at the Interior Ministry said.

The assassination of Pakistani political leader Benazir Bhutto has led to widespread civil unrest in the country.

Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif today pledged "revenge" for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan today.

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto threatens to plunge a nuclear armed Pakistan into civil war, opposition groups warned today.

Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomber as she left a public rally today.

Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomber today, a party aide has said.