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Lahore blast barbaric, says Zardari

Nirupama Subramanian

“Some elements are bent on creating law and order situation to disrupt the February 18 elections”

ISLAMABAD: Asif Ali Zardari, co-chariman of the Pakistan People’s Party, said on Thursday that the government may be better able to prevent terrorist attacks if his party’s demand for a U.N. inquiry into Benazir’s killing is accepted.

In a statement from the Bhutto family home in Naudero in the Sindh province, Mr. Zardari condemned the Lahore suicide blast as “barbaric and heinous,” and said that “some elements are bent on creating a law and order situation” with a view to disrupt the February 18 elections.

Mr. Zardari, who took over the party’s leadership after his wife’s killing, said “once again the regime will produce some headless body and blame the incident on a nameless terrorist.”

If the PPP demand for instituting a U.N. inquiry was accepted, “the nation may know who the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of such reprehensible acts are.”

He told a press conference in Naudero that the PPP would give the government two more days to approach the U.N. for an international enquiry, failing which it would take its own case to the U.N.

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