Bhutto’s party vows to seek UN inquiry into her death

THE party of slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will call on the UN for an inquiry into her assassination if it forms a government after elections next month, said a party spokesman yesterday.

The Pakistan People’s Party, or PPP, has aired deep suspicions over the motives and identities of Ms Bhutto’s assassins. “If the PPP comes to power, we will ask the UN to hold an inquiry,” said Farhatullah Babar, a senior official in Ms Bhutto’s party who accuses the government of screening the real culprits.

The Pakistani government has blamed al-Qaida and initially said Ms Bhutto was killed when the suicide-bomb blast threw her head against the sun-roof lever of the car in which she was standing, despite TV footage showing a gunman firing at her head a split second before.