UN Benazir probe team to grill Musharraf in London

Washington, Sep. 11 (ANI): In order to gather facts and collect evidence, the United Nations team probing the Benazir Bhutto murder case will visit London and Washington within the next couple of weeks.

According to the Daily Times, the UN commission would visit New Scotland Yard to study a report prepared by British investigators claiming that Bhutto was killed by the force of the suicide bomb and not by a bullet.

The team will also interview former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in London.

Sources said the commission believed its report could not be finished without interviewing the most authoritarian personality in Pakistan at the time of Bhutto’s murder.

They added that the team would also interview Nahid Khan, who was Bhutto’s personal aide.

The commission is expected to meet officials of various intelligence agencies in Washington.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, who reportedly received an email through Bhutto’s confidant in Washington, is also expected to be quizzed by the team.

The email said that if anything happened to Bhutto, she would hold Musharraf ‘responsible’ because his government did not do enough to protect her.

Bhutto’s confidante Mark Seigal is also likely to be interviewed.

The three-member commission, led by Chile’s UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, visited Pakistan in July. A team of seven experts stayed behind to conduct further investigations.

The commission also called on President Asif Ali Zardari and held talks with senior government leaders and officials. (ANI)

Al-Qaeda now recruiting ‘ready made’ Taliban terrorists from Pak to strike UK, other countries

London, May 30 (ANI): The extent to which Al-Qaeda has dangerously penetrated into Britain can be gauged from the fact that it no longer relies on sending British-born men to Pakistan for terror training, instead it is now recruiting ‘ready made’ terrorists from among the Taliban based in Pakistan.

British investigators, who have been quizzing the 10 men arrested in the North West, believe that Al Qaeda has developed links with the Taliban which provide it trained militants who can carry out terror strikes at significant locations, The Telegraph reports.

According to the newpaper, a terrorist informant has told prosecutors that he was trained by the top Taliban commander in Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud .

He also revealed that he was planning a series of suicide attacks in Britain, and other European countries with 11 other men.

It’s worth mentioning here that British security services had earlier disclosed that a terrorist cell was sent to Manchester from the Taliban heartland in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas.

The investigators believe that the cell, which was allegedly planning attacks on the Trafford and Arndale shopping centres near the Easter holidays, had links with Al-Qaeda,and other extremists groups too.

The terrorist group is believed to have formed a ‘holy alliance’ with the Taliban to launch terrorist attacks on foreign soil, British investigators said. (ANI)