DIG Zubair Mir included in Benazir murder probing team
| DIG Zubair Mir included in Benazir murder probing team |
| Updated at : Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
 ISLAMABAD: DIG Muhammad Zubair Mir, a Pakistani police officer, who solved the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl has joined the probe into the killing of political leader Benazir Bhutto.
According to police sources, Zubair Mir will coordinate with the Scotlland Yard, a team of British detectives investigating the December 27 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, which plunged Pakistan into turmoil and forced the postponement of key elections. Zubair, director of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Karachi, is a leading investigator credited with unearthing the gang of Islamic militants who planned and carried out the gruesome killing of the reporter. An interior ministry official said Mahmood’s experience in handling high-profile cases would be invaluable. Zubair’s role in the Pearl murder probe featured heavily in the 2007 film “A Mighty Heart,” based on the book of the same name by Mariane Pearl, the journalist’s widow. Pearl, an American journalist, was kidnapped in the southern port city of Karachi in January 2002 and beheaded by Al-Qaeda number three Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He was also sent to the West Indies last year to assist Jamaican police investigating the death of Pakistan cricket team coach Bob Woolmer. President Pervez Musharraf invited Scotland Yard to help with the investigation amid widespread disbelief at the authorities’ initial findings on Bhutto’s cause of death and their shambolic efforts at gathering evidence. |