Bhutto party says Musharraf admission shows need for UN probe

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — The party of murdered Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Sunday that President Pervez Musharraf's admission she may have been killed by a gunman underscored the need for a UN probe.

In an interview with the US television network CBS, Musharraf admitted for the first time that Bhutto could have been shot.

She died in a gun and suicide bomb attack as she left a campaign rally in the northern city of Rawalpindi on December 27. Her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has insisted ever since that she was shot.

Musharraf's comments, however, contradict the interior ministry's official finding that the gunman missed his target and Bhutto died from bashing her head against the car's sunroof as she ducked for cover.

The president told...