UNO enquiry reveals involvement of Gen. Kiyani not Baitullah Mehsud.

By: Earthman, International Professor

When yesterday Daily the News published a story of Amir Mir, an established mole of ISI, which was shocking for every one right 24 hours before release of UNO enquiry report. You can read version of ISI he represented in his criminal report. An embassy at Islamabad had already knew about contents of UNO enquiry report was also disclosed by him. 

However it was proved to be wrong and seven eight pages deceptive report of Amir Mir was nothing except a propaganda campaign against his religious opponents. Now Jang Group must expel him from writing baseless tales based on sectarian abhorrence. Or at least Jang Group must carefully read his intentions soaked in hate. His book published with the Indians has also such deceptive stories. 

Findings of UNO enquiry team have raised fingers toward ISI, MI and Pakistan army:

Now there is no doubt that elimination of Baitullah Mehsud was a drama of Gen. Kiyani to protect not only his skin but to save Musharraf, Gen. Nadeem Ijaz of MI and other players involved in elimination of Benazir. Now onward we know that Peoples party has no feet to conduct criminal investigation and fix culprits. 

UNO enquiry team has clearly casted doubts about involvement of ISI in arresting Aitzaz Shah, a 15 years old boy and according to records Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad who fabricated lever theories and then Minister of Interior a buddy of Mush produced a fake audio to indict Baitullah.

Later Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad was promoted right on the day when UNO announced submission of their final findings. But those were delayed by Zardari mafia including Abdullah Husain Haroon, the Pakistan’s ambassador to UNO. 

Hussain Haroon was so disheartened by none involvement of his religious opponents that he cancelled press conference that was called by him at New York. Remember this same person that pushed India by saying that Pushtoon must be stopped at Khyber.

Now since complete enquiry report has been sent to Zardari and there is no possibility that army would ever allow publishing full contents of report, having a look on leading journalists and paper’s comments published today.  

CBC, Canada: Pakistani officials announced just 24 hours after the killing that Mehsud was their primary suspect, "well before" it was reasonable to do so, the UN report says. This "hindered and prejudiced the subsequent investigation," Munoz said, adding that, to this day, police still have not seriously rethought whether Mehsud was involved, despite his denials.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/15/bhutto-assassination-un-report.html#ixzz0lEDo5Lru 

Miami Herald: The findings were a devastating indictment of the ousted dictatorship of Gen. Pervez Musharraf as well as of Pakistan's most powerful spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the police of Punjab Province and the military headquarters city of Rawalpindi, where Bhutto was killed by a teenage suicide bomber on Dec. 27, 2007.

The report cast doubt on the official Pakistani finding that the killing was ordered by Baitullah Mehsud, the late leader of the Pakistani Taliban, a coalition of extremists allied with their Afghan compatriots and al-Qaida.
The U.S. intelligence community also blamed Bhutto's death on Mehsud, who was conducting a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and attacks aimed at replacing Pakistan's secular system of government with Islamic rule.
The findings could have implications for the current head of Pakistan's military, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who was the ISI director at the time of the assassination. The Obama administration has cultivated strong ties with Kayani and the ISI as part of its strategy to eliminate al-Qaida and Afghan Taliban leaders based in the Pakistani areas bordering war-torn Afghanistan.

"The investigation was severely hampered by intelligence agencies and other government officials, which impeded an unfettered search for the truth," the report found. "More significantly, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) conducted parallel investigations, gathering evidence and detaining suspects. Evidence gathered from such parallel investigations was selectively shared with police.

Unidentified Pakistani officials also tried to impede the U.N. inquiry, the report disclosed, saying that the commission "was mystified by the efforts of certain high-ranking government authorities to obstruct access to military and intelligence sources."

"No one believes that this boy acted alone," the U.N. report said. The threats against her "came a number of sources; these included al-Qaida, the Taliban, local jihadi groups and potentially from elements in the Pakistani Establishment."

This situation," it said, "has contributed to a widespread expectation of impunity in cases of political killings."

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/15/1582009_p2/un-report-pakistan-failed-to-protect.html#ixzz0lEHfpaqs

New York Times: Failure of Pakistani authorities to effectively investigate the killing was “deliberate,” saying that the country’s powerful intelligence agency “severely hampered” local authorities.

The commission believes that the failures of the police and other officials to react effectively to Ms. Bhutto’s assassination were, in most cases, deliberate,” the long awaited report said. “In other cases, the failures were driven by uncertainty in the minds of many officials as to the extent of the involvement of intelligence agencies.”

These included a decision by Saud Aziz, the police chief in Rawalpindi, the city where the assassination took place, to hose down the crime scene less than two hours after the attack. That forced investigators to spend seven hours following the water current and wading through a drainage sewer to collect valuable evidence, including a bullet casing.

The decision was taken after he received a call from army headquarters, possibly including Maj. Gen. Nadeem Ijaz Ahmad, then director general of military intelligence, the report said, citing anonymous sources. It called a later Pakistani inquiry into the decision “a whitewash.”

“Hosing down the crime scene so soon after the blast goes beyond mere incompetence,” the report said. “It is up to the relevant authorities to determine whether this amounts to criminal responsibility.”

The report also criticized Mr. Aziz for deliberately preventing an autopsy, eliminating a central piece of evidence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/world/asia/16bhutto.html

CNN: No one believes that this boy acted alone," the report states. "A range of government officials failed profoundly in their efforts first to protect Ms.Bhutto, and second to investigate with vigor all those responsible for her murder, not only in the execution of the attack, but also in its conception, planning and financing."

Pakistan's government and the CIA blamed the killing on Baitullah Mehsud. Mehsud was killed last year in a suspected U.S. drone strike.

While Thursday's report did not point fingers at any particular culprit, it found that police failed to preserve evidence at the scene of the bombing and said the investigation "suffered from a lack of commitment to identify and bring all of the perpetrators to justice." In particular, the "pervasive reach" of Pakistan's intelligence agencies left police "unsure of how vigorously they ought to pursue actions, which they knew, as professionals, they should have taken," it states.

Nationwide polls conducted shortly after Bhutto's death found that a majority of Pakistanis believe the government of the country's military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was complicit in the assassination. Bhutto's supporters took to the streets after her killing, with the ensuing riots leaving 58 dead and inflicting more than $200 million in damage.

"This pervasive involvement of intelligence agencies in diverse spheres, which is an open secret, has undermined the rule of law, distorted civilian-military relations and weakened some political and law enforcement institutions," it states. "At the same time, it has contributed to wide-spread public distrust in those institutions and fed a generalized political culture that thrives on competing conspiracy theories."

"Investigators also dismissed the possibility of involvement by elements of the establishment, including the three persons identified by Ms. Bhutto as threats to her in her 16 October 2007 letter to General Musharraf," the report states.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/15/pakistan.bhutto.report/?hpt=T2

Independent UK: Government officials claimed she had been murdered by a Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone strike last year.

A number of witnesses claimed to have seen bullet wounds on Ms Bhutto's body. However, a team of detectives from Scotland Yard, invited by General Musharraf, concluded that while a gunman was seen to step forward and fire three times at Ms Bhutto before a large explosion was detonated, it was most likely she had been killed as a result of striking her head on the car.

"In my opinion... Benazir Bhutto died as a result of a severe head injury sustained as a consequence of the bomb blast and due to head impact somewhere in the escape hatch of the vehicle," Nathaniel Cary, a British government pathologist, said in the report.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-braces-for-un-report-on-benazir-1945238.html

Washington Post: "The commission was mystified by the efforts of certain high-ranking Pakistani government authorities to obstruct access to military and intelligence sources," it said, while noting that many officials offered full cooperation.

The three U.N. investigators, who conducted a nine-month inquiry headed by Chile's U.N. Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, believe the failure to effectively examine Bhutto's death was "deliberate," the report said.

Bhutto was mistrusted by parts of Pakistan's military and security establishment and speculation has lingered she was the victim of a plot by allies of General Pervez Musharraf, the president at the time, who did not want her to come to power.

NO AUTOPSY, NO FORENSIC EVIDENCE

The former government that was led by allies of Musharraf blamed the late Pakistani Taliban leader and al Qaeda ally Baitullah Mehsud for Bhutto's murder.

Mehsud was killed in a U.S. drone strike last August. Despite the accusations against Mehsud, conspiracy theories abound in Pakistan over who was behind the assassination.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041504958_2.html

The report did not say who it believed was guilty of the crime, but suggested any credible investigation should also look at those who conceived, planned and financed the operation -- and should not exclude the possible involvement of Pakistan's powerful military and security establishment.

The commission urged Pakistan to properly investigate the assassination.

The Rawalpindi district police hosed down the scene and did not collect or preserve evidence, preventing a proper forensic examination. The failure to conduct an autopsy has also made it impossible to determine a precise cause of death

The actions by police were deliberate, the report said

Mehsud was killed in a U.S. drone strike last August. Despite the accusations against Mehsud, conspiracy theories abound in Pakistan over who was behind the assassination

http://www.rferl.org/content/UN_Report_Pakistan_Failed_To_Protect _Bhutto/2015067.html

Now after clear cut involvement of authorities and establishment in murder of Benazir, next few days watch Pakistan Media seriously and leadership of Peoples Party than decide who is actually culprit. Now this is time for lovers of Benazir and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to pressurize their own Government to take back loot sale of extensions to culprits sitting at GHQ.