ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) information secretary in the Punjab, Farzana Raja, on Saturday alleged that the government was not cooperating with the team of Scotland Yard currently visiting Pakistan to probe into the death of party chairperson Benazir Bhutto.

In a statement issued here, the PPP leader alleged that the Scotland Yard team members were being compelled to investigate the killing of Ms Bhutto on government’s will.

Ms Raja said all the evidence on the spot had already been washed out after the assassination of Ms Bhutto allegedly to save the culprits.

She said the PPP had demanded probe of the tragic demise of Ms Bhutto through a United Nations commission on a pattern of investigation carried out for former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.

Ms Raja said after the arrival of the Scotland Yard team in Islamabad, the Chaudhry brothers and former Sindh chief minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim had started spreading hatred through provocative advertisements in the newspapers. However, she said the PPP would not let the anti-democratic forces get scot-free from the elections by foiling their nefarious designs.

The leader said the PPP would also not let them flee the country.

According to Ms Raja: “After the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto, the anti-democratic forces are conspiring against the federation by spreading provincial biases.”

She said Ms Bhutto’s assassination was a national tragedy, which had been condemned internationally but the “political orphans” were using it for their political goals through their “politics of conspiracies”.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) was a representative of the establishment and agencies and it was trying to come into power by massive rigging in the elections with the help of caretaker government, she said, adding that the PML-Q office- bearers had started resigning and candidates were returning party tickets.

Condemning the arrest of PPP workers, she said on one hand the whole country was mourning the loss of a world-class leader, and on the other, the police were busy in taking action against the shocked PPP workers and registering false cases against them.