Islamabad ,March 4: Pakistani investigators are searching for four retired military officials who were allegedly involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, official sources said. This is the first time that investigators are probing the possibility of the involvement of Pakistan Army soldiers in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Interior ministry officials said the missing soldiers are retired Army personnel who were among the eight Army soldiers related to the main accused and a proclaimed offender in the case.
“The four military personnel had disappeared just before the assassination of the former Prime Minister,” a Pakistan interior ministry official said. Interior ministry officials disclosed that investigators are facing difficulties in determining the exact status of these soldiers and so far no record had been provided.
“The four other soldiers are still serving in the Army. These four Army personnel had never been mentioned in the legal proceedings before the anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi,” an official said.
A UN commission constituted to probe the assassination is expected to submit its report by the end of March.
Shafqat Ali
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Cost of food up 17.87%, to rise higher
AGE CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi
March 4: Food inflation rose marginally to 17.87 per cent for the week ending February 20 due to short supply.
On a year-on-year basis, wheat price jumped by 14 per cent, rice by 10 per cent, pulses 35 per cent, onions 11 per cent and potatoes 28 per cent. However, economists see a further upward pressure on the prices of food commodities in the short term due to increase in the prices of diesel.