Pak Media reports on May 6

Zardari gives more work to BB murder probe team: By Syed Irfan Raza in The Dawn
ISLAMABAD: Expressing dissatisfaction over a three-member fact-finding committee’s report, President Asif Zardari has expanded the purview of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to fix criminal liability against those who had ordered washing the crime scene within one-and-a-half hours after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto outside Liaquat Bagh on Dec 27, 2007, sources in the presidency told Dawn.
Although the committee’s report has not been made public, sources suggest that it has provided a clean chit to former Military Intelligence (MI) chief Maj-Gen Nadeem Ijaz, who was accused by the UN commission of ordering police to hose down the venue of the assassination.
According to the committee’s chief, Cabinet Secretary Chaudhry Abdul Rauf, the report has been handed over to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who had constituted the committee to ascertain within seven days on whose order the crime scene had been washed.
However, the sources said that the presidency had been informed that the prime minister had not received the report so far.
It has been learnt that the JIT working under the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is separately investigating the hosing down of the place.
It is feared that an unpleasant situation may surface if the findings of the JIT differ from the report of the committee which did not fix criminal responsibility on anyone, including the former DG of the MI and senior police officers.
The sources said that President Zardari had also expressed dissatisfaction over the ‘limited’ task given to the three-member committee instead of being asked to conduct a comprehensive investigation to expose the planners, abettors, financiers, facilitators and killers involved in Ms Bhutto’s assassination.
Meanwhile, addressing a gathering of Pakistan People’s Party’s office-bearers, ticket-holders and councillors belonging to Sheikhupura division here on Wednesday, the president said the United Nations inquiry commission had strengthened the government’s hands to pursue the investigations vigorously and expose the culprits.
“Investigations will soon be completed and made public,” he said.
According to presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar, he said: “Some people had objected to our decision to request a UN inquiry commission, but we believe that an international inquiry was necessary for placing the facts in a correct perspective for historical record”.
The president said that the ruling party was seeking to avenge the assassination by strengthening democracy and the UN report would serve this purpose.
Mr Zardari said one of the greatest achievements of the government was the 18th Amendment for restoring parliament’s powers in accordance with the unanimous Constitution given to the country in 1973 by the PPP.
He said Ms Bhutto had shed her blood for restoring the rights of the people and parliament and her party had accepted the challenge of those who were opposing constitutional reforms, parliament’s sovereignty and people’s rights.
Hundreds of PPP workers and several leaders and ministers were present on the occasion.
The president said he would hold more meetings with party workers at the divisional level.http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/zardari-gives-more-work-to-bb-murder-probe-team-650

Total confusion: edit in The May 6
Woe betide anybody under the delusion that the three-man fact finding committee headed by Cabinet Secretary Rauf Chaudhry were going to deliver anything as tangible as a report. Attempting to unscramble the series of statements issued over the past two days by people who are paid considerable sums to know what it is they are talking about, borders on the impossible. We might be forgiven for believing the Chairman of the committee when he said it had completed its work and handed the report to the Prime minister. What could be more straightforward than that? But wait - now consider the statement by Farhatullah Babar to the effect that the committee has no time frame and that it was to question up to nine other people. The report has been completed and submitted or it has not, surely that is something about which there may be a definitive statement? And if the report is submitted has the committee finished its work and does it now stand disbanded or does it hang in limbo awaiting a decision on future investigations? All this before we have any inkling of what the report might contain.
The pot of confusion was stirred by the Presidency in a press release on Monday evening which tells us that the PPP Core Committee, a new entity which beats in sync with the Presidential heart, was briefed by none other than Interior Minister Rehman Malik who seems to be in so many places these days that there are strong indications that there are more than one of him. So how had he got his hands on the report and why was it not the Prime Minister, to whom the report should have been handed first and who presumably has senior briefing rights over Rehman Malik; doing the briefing? Dazed? Confused? There is more. The press release from the Presidency on Monday said that the Rauf committee will be speaking to more people before submitting its report – indicating that the report was not yet submitted and clearly at variance with what its chairman was on record as saying. Speaking to this newspaper on Tuesday evening Rauf Chaudhry said that his committee had not received any additional mandate, and as chairman of the committee we might reasonably assume he was speaking authoritatively. Thankfully, clarification arrived late on Wednesday night in the form of a statement from Farhatullah Babar. It transpires that the briefing given by Rehman Malik referred to progress made by the Joint Investigation team (JIT) and not the Rauf committee, which will separately report to the Prime Minister. Babar owned up to his mistake, we were all confused, media and public alike, and the incident stands as an object lesson in how not to manage the information flow between government and populace. Lesson learned, we trust.http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=237753