New Delhi: A counter-terror team from Scotland Yard arrived in Pakistan on Friday. Interior Ministry officials in Islamabad confirmed that the team comprises officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.
But Pakistani police will continue to lead the investigations into Benazir's assassination, he said.
The PPP says it sees no purpose in having British experts over. They should have been called when the first attack on Benazir was made in Karachi in October.
The PPP is demanding an investigation on the lines of the probe into Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri's killing, which is being carried out under UN supervision.
The first inquiry was conducted in the aftermath of the 1951 assassination of Pakistan's first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan, who was incidentally shot at the same site as Bhutto. The British team was asked to leave Pakistan before its inquiries were complete and the case was closed.
A second British police team was sent to Karachi in 1996 to investigate the murder of Bhutto's estranged younger brother and political rival, Murtaza.
Bhutto was then the prime minister and her administration enlisted the services of Scotland Yard detectives and Home Office forensic experts.
Within six weeks of the killing, Bhutto's government was sacked for alleged corruption. The Scotland Yard team was then ordered to leave Pakistan with its investigation incomplete.
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