Karsaz bombing perpetrators may be behind Benazir’s assassination: Khosa

September 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid (PML-Q) has opposed the investigation of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination case by a UN enquiry commission. PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain said his party had always opposed investigation by a UN team, as it was the country's internal matter.

August 31st, 2009 RAWALPINDI - In order to remove the ambiguity in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, in association with other intelligence agencies, is planning to reconstruct the scene of late Pakistan prime minister's assassination. The Daily Times quoted official sources as saying that a new joint investigation team would reconstruct the crime scene because the original crime scene had not been preserved properly.

August 6th, 2009 KARACHI - A United Nations (UN) commission probing the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto intends to meet former President Pervez Musharraf as part of investigations into the case, the Foreign Office (FO) has said. FO spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters that he was unaware if the UN team had already approached Musharraf.

August 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Former President Pervez Musharraf could be tried by simple majority resolution of Parliament, Pakitan's Attorney General Latif Khosa has said. Replying to a question about action against former President Musharraf, the Attorney General said Parliament is supreme in this issue.

July 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The UN inquiry commission probing the assassination of the former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has completed its first round of investigations and left the country. During its three-day stay in Pakistan, the commission met President Asif Ali Zardari, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Interior Advisor Rehman Malik.

July 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Nothing substantial should be expected from the UN Commission inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, as it is learnt that the Commission would not be revealing the names of the perpetrators. Addressing a news conference here, the head of the commission, Heraldo Munoz clarified that the Commission's report would not mention any names of perpetrators of the assassination as its mandate was just to examine the facts and circumstances in which the killing was carried out.

June 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - With the United Nations (UN) set to start investigations into the assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto from next month, Pakistan has been asked to provide English translations of Urdu documents of the probe conducted so far. The UN subcommission, which would be probing the assassination of the former premier for six months, has asked Islamabad to send two copies of the investigation report prepared by Pakistan intelligence agencies.

June 20th, 2009 Islamabad, June 20 (ANI): The United Nations (UN) would begin its probe into the assassination of the former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto from July 1. The UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said that a UN commission would start its six-month investigation beginning next month.

June 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A militant leader who broke away with Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has accused him of killing former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a media report said Friday. Haji Turkistan Baetani, former right-hand man of Mehsud, claimed that Mehsud had planned the assassination of Bhutto.

June 10th, 2009 UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations independent inquiry commission to investigate the assassination of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is finally complete with the appointment of Peter Fitzgerald of Ireland as the third member of the team. Fitzgerald, a former deputy police commissioner of the Irish National Police Force, Garda Siochana, was a member of the UN investigation on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Harriri.

May 31st, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Attorney General Sardar Latif Khosa has said that the government has enough 'material', other than a UN resolution, to keep the Jamaat-ud- Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and his colleague Colonel (retired) Nazir Ahmad under custody. Khosa told the Lahore High Court (LHC), which is hearing Saeed's detention case, that the custody of the two JuD leaders was protective and preventive in nature, and not the detention for which the petitioners had moved the habeas corpus petition.

May 30th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Attorney General Sardar Latif Khosa has said that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has links with Al-Qaeda, and at least one of the culprit involved in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks is associated with the JuD, The News reports. Presenting secret documents before the Lahore High Court (LHC) with regard to the house-arrest case of JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Khosa said the documents were related with the national security, and therefore is being tabled in a closed door session.

May 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has said that it has completed investigation of the Mumbai terror attack. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Tariq Khosa informed the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Interior Affairs that the probe into the November 2008 terror attacks has been completed and five accused were also nabbed by the authorities.

March 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has demanded that the government should immediately register an FIR for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and nab the culprits involved in the attack, a media report said Sunday. Addressing a public meeting in Pakistan's Faisalabad city Saturday, Sharif said no FIR (First Information Report) was lodged yet by the ruling party although more than a year has passed, Aaj TV reported.

February 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has announced a three-member commission to investigate former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination. The UN chief, who arrived here from Afghanistan Wednesday afternoon, said at a press conference that the global organisation was ready to assist Pakistan in tackling the challenges it is facing.