KARACHI, Jan 14: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari made a surprise visit to the metropolis on Monday evening to meet the Scotland Yard team and the British High Commissioner.

PPP Central Information Secretary Sherry Rehman rejected rumours about a meeting between Mr Zardari and President Musharraf as ‘disinformation and baseless speculation’.

Ms Rehman said Mr Zardari was visiting Karachi to meet the British High Commissioner and members of the Scotland Yard team conducting an investigation into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

The meeting is scheduled to take place on Tuesday morning. British officials had not been granted permission and security clearance by the Pakistan government to travel to Naudero.

Ms Rehman said her party remained committed to its demand for a wider international probe into the events that led to the December 27 tragedy and continued to seek a UN-led inquiry to find out the sponsors, organisers, financiers and perpetrators behind the murder of its chairperson.

“Benazir Bhutto was a leader of international stature. Her assassination represents an attack on the stability and federal structure of Pakistan. It represents an attack on the politics of peace and democracy for the entire region, and the forces that conspired to kill her are the same forces that seek the destruction of Pakistan, which poses a clear and present danger for the region.

“The party will use all its resources to seek the UN-led independent international probe into this heinous act of terrorism and bring the culprits, as well as the hidden hands behind it, to justice,” she said.