Saturday, December 27, 2008

UN to Launch Inquiry into Bhutto's Murder

The UN will launch an investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. I'm wondering if this might be a US pressure tactic to put the Pak military on the defensive, given its jihadist links to the recent attacks on Mumbai, as well as those on NATO convoys. If such an investigation were to uncover complicity by the Pak military establishment in Bhutto's assassination, then it could create a huge rift between the public and the army, thus increasing the latter's political isolation.

I'm thinking that Pakistan's latest redeployment of its troops to the border with India may have prompted this latest UN investigation measure by the US. India hasn't even massed any troops on the border, and yet Pakistan is already claiming a pretext to shift its troops. Therefore this investigation may be yet another lever the US has come up with to show the Pak military its displeasure. I'm sure we all remember how the US-prompted UN probe into the assassination of Lebanon's Rafiq Harriri was used to turn the thumbscrews on the Syrian military.

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