RAWALPINDI Six members of the United Nations inquiry commission on assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto visited on Thursday Liaquat Bagh where she had been killed in a gun-and-bomb attack on Dec 27, 2007.
They spent about two hours there, inspected the stage prepared for Benazir's speech and took photographs.
Members of the team were seen talking to DIG Saud Aziz, the then CPO of Rawalpindi, SSP Operation Yasin Farooq, SP Rawal Town Khuram Shahzad and SP Ishfaq Anwar, asking questions about the security provided to Benazir during and after the rally.
According to sources, members of the team later went to the CPO office where they interviewed some police officers who were posted in Rawalpindi at that time.
Senior officer of Rescue 1122 Dr Abdul Rehman and fire officer of the Tehsil Municipal Authorities Ghulam Mohammad Naz have been asked to meet the team in Islamabad.
Dr Rehman was in charge of Rescue 1122 on Dec 27, 2007, and, according to a reliable source, he had been directed to wash the scene of the blast.
Five members of the commission, Fujiwara Hiroto, Shin Milgers, Marice Mersky, Wright Weronic and Trandhan Suman, arrived in Islamabad on Thursday morning. Another member, a chief security officer, had arrived on Tuesday.
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