Pakistan suspends officials after scathing U.N. report

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

Pakistan suspends officials after scathing U.N. report
By Saeed Shah, McClatchy Newspapers 1 hr 54 mins ago

LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan suspended a raft of officials following a damning United Nations report into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto , the government said Monday.

Separately, extremists unleashed a renewed wave of violence in northwest Pakistan that continued Monday with the bombing of a school and a marketplace in Peshawar that claimed at least 24 lives in a city on a major U.S. and NATO supply line to Afghanistan .

One of the officials removed was Saud Aziz , a senior police officer who ordered the scene of Bhutto's December 2007 murder to be hosed down immediately, destroying valuable evidence. Another was Javed Cheema , an interior ministry official who claimed that Bhutto had been killed in a plot hatched by the then-leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud.

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However, no action was taken against any officers of the country's politically powerful army or military intelligence agencies, although the U.N. report implicated the military in the events leading to Bhutto's death.

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