ISLAMABAD (AFP) — A UN commission selected to investigate the murder of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto begin work on Wednesday, a spokesman said.
The board, which has a six-month command, is being led by the Chilean ambassador to the United Nations, Heraldo Munoz, and includes an Indonesian ex-attorney general and an Irish previous police official.
Bhutto, the first woman to become prime minister of a Muslim country, was killing on December 27, 2007 in a gun and suicide attack after address a voting rally in Rawalpindi, a barracks city near the capital Islamabad.
"The six-month permission of the Benazir Bhutto commission of query has begun today. The commission is probable to visit Pakistan but the dates are not strong-minded yet," Hiro Ueki, a UN spokesman in Pakistan, told AFP.
The United Nations has said the board will inquire into the facts and situation of the assassination, but have made clear it will be up to Pakistan to determine "the criminal liability of the perpetrators."
The board, which has a six-month command, is being led by the Chilean ambassador to the United Nations, Heraldo Munoz, and includes an Indonesian ex-attorney general and an Irish previous police official.
Bhutto, the first woman to become prime minister of a Muslim country, was killing on December 27, 2007 in a gun and suicide attack after address a voting rally in Rawalpindi, a barracks city near the capital Islamabad.
"The six-month permission of the Benazir Bhutto commission of query has begun today. The commission is probable to visit Pakistan but the dates are not strong-minded yet," Hiro Ueki, a UN spokesman in Pakistan, told AFP.
The United Nations has said the board will inquire into the facts and situation of the assassination, but have made clear it will be up to Pakistan to determine "the criminal liability of the perpetrators."
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