CNews KARACHI: Former premier and PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto repeated her calls Thursday for an independent investigation into the blasts and for overseas expertise to track down those responsible.
PPP wouldn’t accept the Oct-18 tragedy probe without overseas expertise, she said here while talking to newsmen at Bilawal House.
"We take financial help and political help from abroad, why can't we take help from technical experts for this investigation?" she said.
The government has rejected the request, saying local investigators are capable of arresting those behind the nation's worst attacks.
Benazir asked the government for permission to travel in a convoy of cars with tinted windows in the wake of last week's devastating suicide blasts.
Bhutto has been surrounded by heavily armed guards since the attacks tore through her homecoming parade in Karachi city killing 139 people and ruining her triumphant return after eight years in self-imposed exile.
She has vowed to stay in Pakistan to campaign for upcoming general polls, which are seen as a key step in the country's return to democracy after eight years of military rule by President Pervez Musharraf.
Amid ongoing fears for her safety, Bhutto said that she wanted the government to provide some "basic security" in the run-up to the January polls.
"For example, I would like to travel in a convoy of cars with tinted windows so the assassins can't identify where I'm sitting.
"The government still hasn't given me permission to do that," Bhutto, the first female leader of an Islamic nation, said.
"I am not satisfied with the security provided to me. I should be made to feel secure, I should not be made to feel insecure," she later told reporters at a press conference.
The two-time premier has claimed in the wake of the carnage that the security forces and government have been infiltrated by Islamic militants.
"She will visit Larkana on October 27th," her Pakistan People's Party central information secretary Sherry Rehman said.
Massive security preparations have been underway for her visit to the mausoleum where the tomb of her father, the late Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is located.
PPP wouldn’t accept the Oct-18 tragedy probe without overseas expertise, she said here while talking to newsmen at Bilawal House.
"We take financial help and political help from abroad, why can't we take help from technical experts for this investigation?" she said.
The government has rejected the request, saying local investigators are capable of arresting those behind the nation's worst attacks.
Benazir asked the government for permission to travel in a convoy of cars with tinted windows in the wake of last week's devastating suicide blasts.
Bhutto has been surrounded by heavily armed guards since the attacks tore through her homecoming parade in Karachi city killing 139 people and ruining her triumphant return after eight years in self-imposed exile.
She has vowed to stay in Pakistan to campaign for upcoming general polls, which are seen as a key step in the country's return to democracy after eight years of military rule by President Pervez Musharraf.
Amid ongoing fears for her safety, Bhutto said that she wanted the government to provide some "basic security" in the run-up to the January polls.
"For example, I would like to travel in a convoy of cars with tinted windows so the assassins can't identify where I'm sitting.
"The government still hasn't given me permission to do that," Bhutto, the first female leader of an Islamic nation, said.
"I am not satisfied with the security provided to me. I should be made to feel secure, I should not be made to feel insecure," she later told reporters at a press conference.
The two-time premier has claimed in the wake of the carnage that the security forces and government have been infiltrated by Islamic militants.
"She will visit Larkana on October 27th," her Pakistan People's Party central information secretary Sherry Rehman said.
Massive security preparations have been underway for her visit to the mausoleum where the tomb of her father, the late Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is located.
