Islamabad: For the second day in a row, Pakistani media has maintained it'll not buy the government's version on how Benazir Bhutto was killed, saying the official explanation "lacks credibility and consistency".

Leading newspapers in their editorials maintained that the security provided to Bhutto was inadequate and questioned why a post-mortem was not carried out on her body by the regime of President Pervez Musharraf.

The Pakistani Government yesterday said that Bhutto did not fell to an assassin s bullet but was fatally wounded by a lever in the sun-roof when she had ducked back into the car following the firing of a few shots at her. But, in its editorial, titled, No one believes the government , the Daily Times said that the final version of events has not cut ice with the public for two reasons - lack of credibility and lack of consistency.

"Most people are cynical of government any way. But this regime is unpopular for a host of reasons and its credibility is rock bottom. Then there is the stupid way in which its spokesmen have gone about explaining the events of that fateful day."

"The established facts are that security was weak, which enabled the gunmen and suicide bomber to come so close to Bhutto and actually open fire at her from a short range, before detonating himself. And the responsibility for lack of adequate security must lie with the government, especially since she had time and again implored the government to improve it," the daily said.

Source : PTI