UN probe team inspects Benazir’s jeep

Saturday, August 22, 2009 By By our correspondent

RAWALPINDI: The United Nations Commission visited on Friday the Adiala Police Station and thoroughly examined the bulletproof jeep of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in which she was riding at the time of her assassination in a gun-and-suicide bomb attack on December 27, 2007, police sources told The News. Chile’s UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz heads the three-member UN commission while Maruki Barusman and Peter Fitzgerald are its members. Stringent security measures were taken during the visit of commission members to the police station. The members of the commission took photographs of Benazir’s vehicle and made a film of it from different sides. The United Nations (UN) has started its six-month investigation into the assassination of the former prime minister on July 1, which will conclude in December this year. The Adiala Jail administration, when contacted by this scribe, said neither the members of the commission visited the jail nor they recorded statements of the suspects involved in the killing of Benazir Bhutto.