ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan 5 (AP) - The husband of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto accused elements within Pakistan's government on Saturday of responsibility for her murder and urged Britain and the United States to support a U.N. investigation into the killing. “An investigation conducted by the government of Pakistan will have no credibility, in my country or anywhere else,” Asif Ali Zardari said in a commentary published Saturday in The Washington Post. “One does not put the fox in charge of the hen house.” Zardari _ who was named the effective leader of Bhutto's political party soon after her death _ reiterated earlier demands that a Hariri commission-like U.N. probe was the only way to reveal the truth about the murder. He urged “friends of democracy in the West, in particular the United States and Britain, to endorse the call for such independent investigation.” “Those responsible _ within and outside of government _ must be held accountable,” wrote Zardari, whose party intends to contest elections on Feb. 18. Pakistan's government does not support a U.N. probe, and Washington has already indicated it sees no need for one. In fact, anti-terrorism officers from Britain's Scotland Yard arrived in Pakistan on Friday to provide technical and forensic help in the investigation
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