July 9, 2010 4:42 PM

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UN rejects to reopen Bhutto’s assassination probe

The United Nations has rejected reopening of the independent probe into the assassination of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto as the work is complete. <br/><br/>But UN chief Ban ki-Moon will respond to objections raised by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. Associate Spokesperson for the UN Secretary General Farhan Haq told reporters in New York that the agency is working on the reply. <br/><br/>Haq, however, pointed out that Moon is of the view that the work of the Commission is complete. Bhutto was killed on December 27, 2007 when a suicide bomber exploded himself close to her car in Rawalpindi while campaigning for the Pakistan People's Party in parliamentary and provincial elections. <br/><br/>The inquiry of Commission set up in 2009 to ascertain the facts and circumstances of Bhutto's death concluded that the death could have been prevented. The three-member United Nations commission, which was headed by Chile's former UN ambassador Heraldo Munoz, presented its report on April 15.<br/><br/> The report also slammed the Musharraf government for both failing to protect Bhutto after she returned to Pakistan and later investigating her death instead rushing to blame Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud. It also found that presence of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI deliberately prevented investigations into the death of Bhutto.

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