Bhutto Killing: Pak police rounds up 250 people for clues

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan police have rounded up about 250 hardened criminals and other suspects after conducting a massive search to find clues to the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi last week.
    
Special police teams took the people into custody during search operations. Police were releasing the suspects after verifying their antecedents and questioning them for information about the killing, the Daily Times reported.
   
Police focused on criminals who were in their records. Hotels, bus stands, railway stations, hospitals, markets and rented accommodation were searched by the special teams, officials said.

Police had also been directed to keep an eye on anti-social elements and plainclothes policemen had been deployed at sensitive places, they said.
   
People have been advised to keep their computerized national identity cards with them while travelling in or outside Rawalpindi to avoid inconvenience because of the tight security, officials said.

Bhutto was assassinated during a suicide attack shortly after she had addressed an election rally at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on December 27.