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| Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has said he is not "fully satisfied" with the investigation into the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. | Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has said he is not "fully satisfied" with the investigation into the killing of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. |
| But Mr Musharraf said he did not believe government or intelligence agencies had tried to "hide secrets" after Ms Bhutto's murder last Thursday. | |
| UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sending a team of detectives from London to help establish what happened. | UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sending a team of detectives from London to help establish what happened. |
| Ms Bhutto's party has called for a wider inquiry by the United Nations. | Ms Bhutto's party has called for a wider inquiry by the United Nations. |
| Addressing a news conference, Mr Musharraf said that uncertainty remained over the exact cause of Ms Bhutto's death. | Addressing a news conference, Mr Musharraf said that uncertainty remained over the exact cause of Ms Bhutto's death. |
| An initial government report said that she was killed when a bomb blast caused her head to hit the vehicle she was travelling in at the time. | An initial government report said that she was killed when a bomb blast caused her head to hit the vehicle she was travelling in at the time. |
| "One should not give a statement that's 100% final. That's the flaw that we suffer from," Mr Musharraf said, adding that fresh evidence had come to light. | |
| 'Assassinating, intriguing' | |
| Referring to the team of detectives being sent by the UK, he said: "We needed more experience, maybe more forensic and technical experience that our people don't have." | Referring to the team of detectives being sent by the UK, he said: "We needed more experience, maybe more forensic and technical experience that our people don't have." |
| For the first time since Ms Bhutto's killing, Mr Musharraf acknowledged that the crime scene had been hosed down, possibly destroying evidence. | |
| "I am sure that they did not do it with an intention of hiding some secrets or that the intelligence agencies instructed them to hide secrets," Mr Musharraf told reporters. | |
| "If you are meaning that it was by design to hide evidence, no, it was inefficiency." | |
| Asked if he had played any part in the assassination of his political opponent, he said: "My family by any imagination is not a family which believes in killing people, assassinating, intriguing." | |
| Ms Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has criticised the government investigation as woefully inadequate. | |
| PPP Senator Babar Awan said the party would not back down in its demands for a UN investigation. | |
| "Benazir Bhutto was martyred in a political conspiracy. The entire government in now involved in a save-the-culprit campaign," he said. |