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Police blocked bhutto autopsy { November 2007 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009586649 http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009586649 Police Chief Stopped Bhutto's Autopsy January 1, 2008 6:32 a.m. EST Harriette Cecilio - AHN News Writer Islamabad, Pakistan (AHN) - The quest to determine the real cause of death of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto hit a blank wall after police stopped doctors from conducting an autopsy. CNN reports, quoting a lawyer on the board of the Rawalpindi General Hospital, that the chief of the Rawalpindi police ordered doctors not to push through with an autopsy on Bhutto's body. Aziz Saud, the police chief who allegedly prevented the autopsy, reportedly stressed that conducting an autopsy was within the sole discretion of the police. Bhutto was already dead when she arrived at the hospital shortly after Thursday's attack. Lawyer Athar Minallah told CNN that preventing an autopsy is against Pakistani criminal law. Without an autopsy, the cause of Bhutto's death could not be ascertained. Saud told CNN that contrary to Minallah's statement, he was the one who suggested an autopsy. However, Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari , supposedly objected. There have been conflicting reports on the cause of Bhutto's death. Her family and political party insist the 54-year-old leader died from gunshot wounds of an assassin. On the other hand, the Pakistani Interior Ministry said Friday Bhutto died after she sustained a skull fracture when she ducked for cover. She reportedly crashed her head onto a sunroof lever. Officials said the findings were backed up by a report signed by seven doctors. The physicians said their findings were based only on cursory "external post-mortem" using X-rays. New video footages show that a gunman may have indeed ended Bhutto's life. Zardari wants the U.S. government to intervene and call for an independent international probe.

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