ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The head of a Pakistani team probing the Oct. 18 Karachi blasts has quit after complaints from former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s party, reports said.
Deputy Inspector General Manzoor Mughal, who was investigating the blasts that killed more than 130 people during Bhutto’s homecoming from her exile, was replaced after Bhutto's party made accusations relating to his alleged involvement when her husband was tortured in a past case, PakTribune.com reported.
Pakistan’s Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema confirmed Mughal’s exit, saying it had been demanded by Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party, the English language Dawn reported Thursday.
Cheema was quoted as saying the investigation into the blasts, which reportedly had targeted Bhutto who escaped unhurt, has found important leads. He said DNA tests were going on with the discovery of the heads of two suspected suicide bombers at the blast site, the report said.
On the demand by Bhutto’s party that foreign experts conduct the investigation of the blasts, Cheema said the job can be done by Pakistani experts and denied some reports the FBI from the United States was involved in the probe.
