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NAME: PAK UK POLICE2 20080104I TAPE: EF08/0023 IN_TIME: 10:25:43:08 DURATION: 00:01:41:08 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Islamabad - 4 Jan 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1 Wide of arrivals terminal at Islamabad International airport 2 Wide of security at airport 3 Arrivals board at airport 4 Close of member of British Scotland Yard anti-terror team walking through airport terminal surrounded by media 5 Various of British officers getting onto minibus - surrounded by media 6 Pan of minibus driving away 7 Various of British policemen taking tea in hotel garden STORYLINE: A team of British anti-terror officers from Scotland Yard arrived in Pakistan on Friday, to join the investigation into opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, a day after President Pervez Musharraf dismissed allegations his government may have had a hand in the killing The officers made no comment to reporters as they made their way through the arrivals terminal at Islamabad International Airport Later in the day the policemen were seen taking tea in the garden of their hotel in Islamabad The Scotland Yard team will provide forensic and technical expertise into the killing of the opposition leader, but will not be allowed to go on a wild goose chase and create a political disturbance, Musharraf told a news conference late on Thursday Bhutto's killing on December 27 plunged an already volatile Pakistan deeper into crisis as it battled a surge in violence by militant extremists It also forced a six-week delay in parliamentary elections, now set for February 18, which were seen as crucial to restoring stability and democracy to this key US ally Musharraf, a former army chief who seized power in a 1999 coup, rejected accusations that a security lapse led to Bhutto's killing and suggested she was partly at fault because she poked her head out of her bombproof vehicle's sunroof after an election rally despite threats by Islamic extremists He acknowledged his decision to seek outside help to investigate the killing was partly to allay suspicions of government complicity Bhutto had accused elements in the ruling party of plotting to kill her Rioting following Bhutto's death killed nearly 60 people and caused about 80 (b) billion rupees (13 (b) billion US dollars) worth of damage in the worst-hit province of Sindh, authorities said The government quickly accused an Islamic militants of orchestrating the shooting and bombing attack on Bhutto and said she died from the force of the blast and not a gunshot wound But many, questioned that account, and Bhutto's party has demanded a United Nations probe into her murder