United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underlined today that the world body is not going to investigate the murder of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but is considering only to appoint a fact-finding commission.
The Secretary-General said the details are still being discussed with the Pakistan government and indicated that several issues remained to be resolved.
"We are looking at finding situations of assassination of Bhutto. But we are still discussing this matter with the Pakistani government," Ban said.
Among the issues yet to sorted out, he said, are the composition of the commission, its scope, time frame and funding.
"But this is not going to be an investigation," he stressed at a press conference today.
This is first time that the United Nations has made it clear that it is not going to hold an independent inquiry into the assassination.
The Pakistan government had asked the United Nations for independent inquiry into the assassination so that truth behind Bhutto's assassination could be established.
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