ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani police arrested on Friday another suspect in connection with the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a senior police investigator said.
"Yes, we have arrested a suspect and we are interrogatinghim," said the investigator, who declined to be identified.
He identified the suspect as Abdul Rashid but declined togive further details.
Private Geo Television said Rashid was suspected ofproviding "arms and ammunition" to those involved in the attackon Bhutto.
The two-time prime minister was killed in a gun and bombattack in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27 as she left anelection rally.
Television footage showed a man firing three shots from apistol at Bhutto moments before a bomb went off.
Pakistani and U.S. intelligence officials have blamedBaitullah Mehsud, an al Qaeda-linked militant commander basedin a tribal region on the Afghan border, for the assassination.
Police said as well as the bomber, identified as Saeed,alias Bilal, four other militants were present in and aroundthe venue of the rally in Rawalpindi.
Police said on Wednesday that two militants, Hasnain Guland Rifaqat, were arrested last week and had confessed togiving a pistol and a suicide-bomb vest to the bomber.
Two of the five militants police said were at the scene ofthe attack were still at large, they said.
Last month, authorities arrested two suspects including a15-year-old-boy who admitted being a back-up suicide bomber ifthe Rawalpindi attack had failed.
The latest arrest came three days before general electionswhich were delayed from January 8 after Bhutto's murder.
Despite the explanations of the government as to how Bhuttowas killed and who was responsible, supported at least in partby both the CIA and British police, many Pakistanis believeelements from the Pakistani government were involved in killingher.
(Reporting by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel)
