Pak govt benefited from Bhutto's death: Zardari

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Pervez Musharraf, was directly responsible for ordering the killing of his wife, he said he will not take any position at the moment as he has asked for an international investigation but maintained that government had failed to provide her adequate security.

"I will wait for the international investigation to come and find out... We'd written so many letters to them. We'd written, asked for international assistance for security which they did not do. There are so many reasons that I should be apprehensive of the present government," Zardari said expressing doubts that the assassination could be the handiwork of the Taliban and the al Qaeda.

"It's not the question of they didn't like her, but it is too far-fetched. If we win, then we come, and then maybe they would have taken another approach to it."

Zardari pointed out that Masud had already denied any role in the killing.

"The whole situation of al Qaeda and the terrorists is very wishy-washy. We have too many things going around that seem to be pointing towards different sources in Pakistan,"

The PPP leader said asserting that it is "obviously" the government that benefits from the death of Bhutto.

"They all benefit because there is no alternate, there is no Benazir Bhutto, there is no larger than life figure to oppose them. Because she was not looking for just shared government to come into government, she was looking for them to go back, oust the army and get into power and get the people's government, like democracy going," he said.

Zardari was asked what he wanted the United States and Bush to do.