UN report on Bhutto murder finds Pakistani officials ‘failed profoundly’

15 April 2010 – Security arrangements by Pakistan’s federal and local authorities to protect assassinated Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto were “fatally insufficient and ineffective” and subsequent investigations into her death were prejudiced and involved a whitewash, an independent United Nations inquiry reported today.

Pakistani Government ‘failed profoundly’ to prevent murder of Bhutto – UN report