Pakistan Govt Offers To Exhume Bhutto’s Body
The Pakistan government today offered to exhume the body of Benazir Bhutto, as the row over the murdered opposition leader’s cause of death intensified.
The Interior Ministry claims the former leader died after hitting her head on her car’s sunroof during the suicide attack, a version of events that the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has said he has no reason to contradict.
But Miss Bhutto’s party dismissed the official account, branding it as “ludicrous” and a “pack of lies”. One aide who bathed Miss Bhutto’s body before her burial said she saw a gunshot wound in her head.
The Interior Ministry today said it was willing to exhume Miss Bhutto’s body if her party requested, to quash rumours of a cover-up.
Tensions in Pakistan have boiled over since Miss Bhutto’s assassination on Thursday.
The viability of the country’s forthcoming elections was thrown into doubt today after the election commission said it would hold an emergency meeting to assess the impact of the violence raging across the country.
The unrest, which followed the killing of Miss Bhutto, led to the destruction of nine polling stations, including the voter rolls inside, the commission said in a statement.
The election, planned for Jan 8, is seen as a crucial step in restoring stability and bring democracy back to this nuclear-armed nation.
“All activities pertaining to pre-poll arrangements, including printing of ballot papers and logistics as well as training of polling personnel, have been adversely affected,” the commission said.
In some places the security situation was “not conducive” to holding the elections, which Miss Bhutto had come home from exile in October to take part in.
The country’s remaining opposition leader, Nawaz Sharif, has already indicated that his party will boycott the election.
(Telegraph)
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I wonder if the PPP will put up another leader. Sharif needs some counter-balancing. As an Islamist, I’m surprised he’s not on the suspect list.
December 29th, 2007 at 6:20 pmThis just in…..
Benazir Bhutto is still dead!!
(apologies to Chevy Chase)
December 29th, 2007 at 6:52 pmGee, if the grave turns out to be empty think she’ll give the 12th Imam a run for the money?
December 29th, 2007 at 7:14 pmNow why would they do that? To tamper with evidence maybe? They already purged the crime scene of evidence. There’s no chain of custody? So what do they hope to achieve now?
What a useless bunch of corrupt asshats the Paki government officials are. No wonder the Islamo-nazis are kicking their asses.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:31 pm