Washington: Top Democrat Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has charged that the Pakistan regime under President Pervez Musharraf has "no credibility" and sought an "independent international" probe into the killing of Benazir Bhutto.

"I don't think the Pakistani government, at this time, under President Musharraf has any credibility at all. They have disbanded an independent judiciary, they have oppressed a free press", Senator Clinton said in an interview to CNN.

"Therefore, I am calling for a full, independent, international investigation (into Bhutto's killing), perhaps along the lines of what the UN has been doing with respect to the assassination of Prime Minister Hariri in Lebanon", she said.

The Senator from New York stressed "it is critically important that we get answers. Those answers are due, first and foremost, to the people of Pakistan -- not only those who were supportive of Benazir Bhutto and her party, but every Pakistani, because we cannot expect to move towards stability without some reckoning as to who was responsible for this assassination".

Clinton urged Musharraf and Pakistan government to realise that it was in their interest to understand whether or not it was al-Qaida or some other offshoot extremist group "that is attempting to further destabilise and even overthrow the Pakistani government, or whether it came from within, either explicitly or implicitly, the security forces or the military in Pakistan".

The Democrat front-runner for the US presidential polls in 2008 also warned Musharraf against acting "as though they can destabilise Pakistan and retain their positions; their positions of privilege, their positions of authority.
Source : PTI