The reports by both the United Nations and the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) blame former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf for the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, according to an article published in the New York Daily News. The reports come in the wake of criminal proceedings against the seven accused in the case, including Musharraf, and the Pakistan government requesting Interpol to issue an international warrant for Musharraf’s arrest. According to Mark Siegel’s article, the United Nations’ 70-page report concludes that the failure of police to effectively probe Bhutto’s assassination, and the destruction of evidence, was “deliberate and ordered from above”. The JIT report said that Musharraf, working along with two police officers, was aware of the assassination plot against Bhutto and its timing, and personally ordered the destruction of evidence. The police officers facilitated the terrorists, who devised various phases of the plot, from conception to execution and cover-up operations, it added. Despite the fact that Musharraf had ordered security teams to guard two other former prime ministers who were his political supporters, Bhutto was provided with virtually no security.
‘Musharraf was aware of Bhutto’s murder timing’
