Pakistan vows to expose Bhutto killers

Pakistan vowed on Tuesday to expose those involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Benazir Bhutto after a damning UN report said the former prime minister's death was investigated inadequately.
A meeting chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, and attended by cabinet ministers, reviewed progress made by a new fact-finding committee, the government said.
Gilani formed the three-member committee last week to determine whether the then director general of military intelligence ordered that the scene of the 2007 killing be hosed down.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik briefed the meeting on progress made so far, Zardari's spokesman Farhatullah Babar said in a statement.
"The fact-finding committee will also question some more people before submitting its report to the prime minister," Babar said.
"The committee reaffirmed its resolve to pursue investigations in the light of the UN report to expose all elements involved in the conspiracy to assassinate... Bhutto," he said without elaborating.
Pakistan removed senior police and intelligence officials from their posts after last month's UN report.
Bhutto, the first woman to become prime minister of a Muslim country, was killed after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi.
The new fact-finding committee visited the scene of the December 27, 2007 gun and suicide bomb attack in the garrison city and questioned those who were police officers at the time.
It has twice summoned former director general of military intelligence, Major General Nadeem Ijaz, but he denied that he ordered the site hosed down, destroying valuable evidence, media reports said.
The UN panel said it believed police deliberately failed to probe the killing effectively and that the government of then military ruler Pervez Musharraf failed to provide Bhutto with adequate protection.
Bhutto, who twice served as prime minister, returned from exile to stand for election two months before she was assassinated.
Her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, led her Pakistan People's Party to election victory in February 2008 and he is now head of state.
The UN panel said its investigation was severely hampered by intelligence agencies and other officials who impeded "an unfettered search for the truth".