Pakistan Offers to Exhume Benazir Bhutto

[tekisui]

The Pakistan government today offered to exhume the body of Benazir Bhutto, as the row over the murdered opposition leader's cause of death intensified.

The Interior Ministry claims the former leader died after hitting her head on her car's sunroof during the suicide attack, a version of events that the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has said he has no reason to contradict.

But Miss Bhutto's party dismissed the official account, branding it as "ludicrous" and a "pack of lies". One aide who bathed Miss Bhutto's body before her burial said she saw a gunshot wound in her head.

The Interior Ministry today said it was willing to exhume Miss Bhutto's body if her party requested, to quash rumours of a cover-up.

Tensions in Pakistan have boiled over since Miss Bhutto's assassination on Thursday.

The viability of the country's forthcoming elections was thrown into doubt today after the election commission said it would hold an emergency meeting to assess the impact of the violence raging across the country.

The unrest, which followed the killing of Miss Bhutto, led to the destruction of nine polling stations, including the voter rolls inside, the commission said in a statement.

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[Missy M]

1. Seems like the smart thing to do.......

and bring in an independent group of doctors from other countries to assist in the autopsy.

[Flabbergasted]

3. That might be asking too much. nt

[Missy M]

4. Why would that be asking too much?

How better to put an end to the controversy.

[Flabbergasted]

7. It would, but I wonder how independent these doctors would be. nt

[tekisui]

2. Are there any strict Muslim beliefs on exhumation?

[Sanctified]

5. Why?

It's not like they are going to discover she died from wounds that were not attributed to intentional assassination. The video proves that she was shot at with a gun and if that did not kill her then the bomb did, what is the point of digging her body up?

[tekisui]

6. I don't understand what difference the actual case of death makes. But,

it is obviously very important to the Pakistani government, Bhutto's aides and Bhutto's supporters.

She was killed by assassins, no doubt. Story's have changed and the truth is being muddied for a reason. For no other reason than to find out why the misinformation campaign, they should try to answer any questions.