Pakistan rejects foreign help as riots kill 44

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.

President Pervez Musharraf ordered his security chiefs to quell mass rioting by Ms Bhutto’s grieving followers that has killed at least 44 people over three days, caused tens of millions of dollars in damage and paralysed the country.