Bhutto exhumation okay, Pakistan official says

[CatWoman]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto's political party exhuming the slain opposition leader's body if they see a need to do so, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Saturday.

Brig. Javed Iqbal Cheema made the remark when asked about comments from a top Bhutto aide who helped bathe Benazir Bhutto's body after her death.

Sherry Rehman, Pakistan People's Party information secretary, said it was clear that the former Pakistani prime minister suffered bullet wounds to her head, contrary to a government report that she died because she hit her head on a sunroof lever.

Cheema noted that if Rehman -- as she said -- believes she saw bullet wounds that caused Bhutto's death, "We don't mind if the People's Party leadership wants her body to be exhumed and post-mortemed. They are most welcome, but we gave you what the facts are."

Cheema emphasized that the government's conclusion on the cause of death was based on "absolute facts, nothing but the facts."

"It was corroborated by the doctor's report; it was corroborated by the evidence of the footage we showed you."

Rehman -- who had been riding in the car behind Bhutto's when it was attacked -- called the government's conclusion that Bhutto was not shot "the most bizarre, dangerous nonsense." Watch

"It's beginning to look like a cover-up to me," Rehman said in a CNN interview.

Rehman said Bhutto was hemorrhaging on the way to the hospital and that the two cars used to get her there were blood-soaked.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/29/bhutto.death/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[ladjf]

1. Yes. The exhumation is OK. But it won't be OK for anyone to

examine the body except for Musharif's hencemen.

[blogslut]

2. Does exhumation jive religiously?

I thought an autopsy was considered to be a desecration of the body for the Islam faith? Would not exhumation also be desecration?

[Sultana]

3. .

It is forbidden but it is allowed if there is a law the allows it to be carried out. But I don't know about the exhumation.

[blogslut]

5. Thank you

I was wondering because of the obvious outrage that would ensue if exhumation were indeed, against the wishes of the faithful.

[CatWoman]

4. remember when Saddam's sons were killed

and the outcry that ensued because the bodies were both autopsied, and splashed all over the television?

[King Coal]

6. Hiya Cat!

"absolute facts, nothing but the facts."

Mamood Al Joe Friday.

:rofl:

:hi: