Bhutto's husband calls for UN probe

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.

“An investigation conducted by the government of Pakistan will have no credibility, in my country or anywhere else,” Asif Ali Zardari said in the Washington Post.

Mr Zardari’s remarks were the latest in a steady stream of allegations that elements within Pakistan’s government were responsible for Ms Bhutto’s death.

Mr Zardari – who was named effective leader of Ms Bhutto’s political party soon after her death – urged “friends of democracy in the West, in particular the US and Britain, to endorse the call for such independent investigation”.