The U.N. commission said Musharraf’s government, though tracking threats against Bhutto, did little more than pass them on to her and provincial authorities and did not act to neutralize them or ensure “that the security provided was commensurate with the threats.” Bhutto’s party provided extra security, but the arrangements “lacked leadership and were inadequate and poorly executed,” it said.

The Rawalpindi District Police’s actions and omissions in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Ms. Bhutto, including the hosing down of the crime scene and failure to collect and preserve evidence, inflicted irreparable damage to the investigation. The decision to not conduct an autopsy made it impossible to determine a precise cause of death.

Ms. Bhutto faced threats from a number of sources. These included al-Qaida, the Taliban, local jihadi groups and potentially from elements in the Pakistani Establishment. The police probe lacked direction and commitment, and that it went after “lower level operatives,” not higher-ups.

The commission believes that the failure of the police to investigate effectively Ms. Bhutto’s assassination was deliberate. “These officials, in part fearing intelligence agencies’ involvement, were unsure of how vigorously they ought to pursue actions, which they knew, as professionals, they should have taken.

Five people have been accused by authorities involvement in the assassination, but officials have said a final charge-sheet against them would only be submitted in court after the U.N. report was examined. A hearing was scheduled for April 21 for the five, jail official Mohammed Zafar said.

The commission urged Pakistani authorities to carry out a “serious, credible” criminal investigation that “determines who conceived, ordered and executed this heinous crime of historic proportions, and brings those responsible to justice.”

Pakistan’s presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the report backed up the PPP’s belief that Musharraf or his allies were responsible for Bhutto’s death. But Musharraf aide Rashid Qureshi insisted the U.N. report was based on rumours and that Musharraf was not responsible. The U.N. report on the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is a “pack of lies” that wrongly implicates ex-President Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan’s security forces for not preventing her killing, Rashid Qureshi further said.

Qureshi added:

This chief U.N. investigator was not the relative of Sherlock Homes. Bhutto exposed herself to the risk even after the head of the country’s most powerful spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, warned her not to attend the rally because of threats of an attack.

Musharraf’s government blamed Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani militant commander with reported links to al-Qaida. Officials at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency also said Mehsud, who was killed in a missile strike last August, was the chief suspect.

The U.N. commission said Musharraf’s government, though tracking threats against Bhutto, did little more than pass them on to her and provincial authorities and did not act to neutralize them or ensure “that the security provided was commensurate with the threats.”

Bhutto’s party provided extra security, but the arrangements “lacked leadership and were inadequate and poorly executed,” it said.

“The Rawalpindi District Police’s actions and omissions in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Ms. Bhutto, including the hosing down of the crime scene and failure to collect and preserve evidence, inflicted irreparable damage to the investigation,” the commission said. The decision to not conduct an autopsy made it impossible to determine a precise cause of death, it said.

While Bhutto was killed by a 15 1/2-year-old suicide bomber, “no one believes that this boy acted alone,” it said.

“Ms. Bhutto faced threats from a number of sources,” the commission said. “These included al-Qaida, the Taliban, local jihadi groups and potentially from elements in the Pakistani Establishment” – a reference to the country’s powerful military and intelligence apparatus.

The U.N. said the police probe lacked direction and commitment, and that it went after “lower level operatives,” not higher-ups.

The commission said Pakistan’s main spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, conducted parallel investigations, gathering evidence which was only selectively shared with the police.

“The commission believes that the failure of the police to investigate effectively Ms. Bhutto’s assassination was deliberate,” the report said. “These officials, in part fearing intelligence agencies’ involvement, were unsure of how vigorously they ought to pursue actions, which they knew, as professionals, they should have taken.”

Five people have been accused by authorities involvement in the assassination, but officials have said a final charge-sheet against them would only be submitted in court after the U.N. report was examined. A hearing was scheduled for April 21 for the five, jail official Mohammed Zafar said.

The commission urged Pakistani authorities to carry out a “serious, credible” criminal investigation that “determines who conceived, ordered and executed this heinous crime of historic proportions, and brings those responsible to justice.”

Bhutto was killed in a December 27, 2007, gun and suicide-bomb attack as she was leaving a rally in Rawalpindi city, where she was campaigning to return her Pakistan People’s Party to power in elections after returning from nearly nine years in self-imposed exile.

As indicated in the report that Pakistan authorities should initiate serious criminal investigations to determine the culprits who are responsible for this heinous crime and bring them to justice. Benazir Butto’s party is in power in Pakistan and her husband Mr. Asif Ali Zardari is president of Pakistan, one should expect from the government that it does take some steps to resolve the mystery surrounding Benazir’s assassination.

Government of Pakistan paid 5Million dollars to UN for the investigation. However, there is nothing new in the report which has not been already known to Pakistanis. The report has only compiled the facts which were already gathered by other agencies in Pakistan and presented as a report. The question here is what has government achieved from this report by spending 5 Million Dollars? The report is not going to help at all to catch the culprits in any way.

Just consider the scenerio where the world is made to beleive that extremists are nearing to take control of Pakistan’s strategic nuclear assets.  The world will have no other option to act in the best interest of the people of the world to safegaurd the nuclear assets and stop these going into the hands of Islamic extremists or Al-Qaeda.

It is incumbent upon each and every Pakistani to not play in the hands of enemies of Pakistan and deal with this very critical situation in the history of Pakistan very carefully.  Please don’t let few hundreds to take control of whole Pakistan and act in the best interest of Pakistan. United we stand, divided we fall.

It is also very imprtant that neighbouring Islamic countries to help Pakistan to go through this troubling situation to avoid any more tragedies.

Benazir Bhutto returned from self-imposed exile in October this year after years out of Pakistan where she had faced corruption charges. On the day of her return she led a motor cavalcade through the city of Karachi. It was hit by a double suicide attack that left some 130 dead.

The demise of Benazir Bhutto is a great loss of the entire Pakistani nation. It is an act of destabilizing Pakistan and create anarchy in a country which is already a prime target of terrorism in recent months.

It is not difficult to understand who will benefit the most from this act of terrorism. Whole Pakistani nation has to deal this tragic incident of Benazir Bhutto’s death very wisely and carefully and not to play in the hands of terrorists and enemies of Pakistan.

Government spokesman has put the blame on Al-Qaeda linked group for the killing of Benazir Bhutto, whereas there are rumours that Parvez Musharaf is behind the death. Benazir Butto wrote a letter to Parvez Musharaf on her return from exile and nominated three names if she was killed. The most prominent name was Parvez Ilahi, ex-chief minister of Punjab province and now running the compaign to become the next prime minister of Pakistan.

Who is behin the killing will remain a mystery as many other important deaths in Pakistan history. The only thing all the Pakistanis have to keep in mind that who ever is bhind the death of Benazir Bhutto is enemy of Pakistan. All Pakistanis have to unite to defeat this common enemy of the country.

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