Scotland Yard team starts work on martyrdom probe

A seven-member investigation team of Scotland Yard detectives arrived in Pakistan to assist the government in the investigation in the case of martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto. The team, headed by David Keith, was received by officials of the British High Commission at Islamabad airport and was taken to the High Commission office for preliminary briefing.

The members of the team remained tight lipped at airport and did not respond to any queries of newsmen. The Scotland Yard team consists of highly professional detectives. It would help probe the case of December 27, 2007 Liaquat Bagh shooting and suicide bombing.

Sources said that the Scotland Yard team was given a detailed briefing regarding the preliminary investigation by the Ministry of Interior in Islamabad. Police in Rawalpindi said that the four-member police investigation team, headed by Additional Inspector-General Police (AIGP), Punjab, Abdul Majeed would also give briefing to the Scotland Yard detectives.

Scotland Yard detectives were for the first time invited to investigate the case when Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was shot dead here in Liaquat Bagh, then called ‘Company Bagh’. Coincidentally, Benazir Bhutto herself had invited Scotland Yard to investigate the murder of her brother Murtaza Bhutto in Karachi in September 20, 1996.