diplomats don't always do diplomatic language.

Here's what the American ambassador to Pakistan cable to Washington

five days after Benazir Boutos death.

The government of Pakistan seems to be in a state of protracted confusion

about the status of the investigation of Benazir Boutos assassination.

Days later, in another confidential cable,

the ambassador felt it necessary to reiterate...

The government of Pakistan's clumsy handling of the investigation.

But her assessment missed the point.

It implied the state wanted to find out what happened.

Police did arrest some low-level suspects in the weeks after the assassination,

but their cases have languished.

As the chief prosecutor in Benazir Boutos case accepted,

when I spoke to him last July, the process has been...

...larfably bad.

Mohammed, as our chowdry, had been waiting seven months for a judge to hear the case

after the previous one had been transferred,

and it wasn't the first judge-led delay.

It is the sixth judge who had been transferred

during the hearing of the Benazir Boutos murder case.

Six judges? Is that because they...

Is that because they don't want to do it or because...

...