I was crying out loud before, that UN can’t interfere until Pakistan officially involve other country. President Musharraf also ruled out this today. Next time lovers of BB get the facts right..
The United Nations will take no action on the written request of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) seeking the establishment of a commission to investigate the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
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“The world body deals with matters amongst states and doesn’t interfere in individual cases in which no other country is involved in any way,**” a senior official told The News. He said the UN had already made it known that it would not constitute any commission to probe Ms Bhutto’s slaying and that it was for the Pakistani government to investigate the murder.
On Thursday, PPP Co-chairman Asif Zardari asked the government to submit a request to the UN within 48 hours to set up a commission for investigation into Ms Bhutto’s assassination, and if it was not done his party would approach the world body to the effect.
Immediately after Ms Bhutto’s killing, the PPP had aired the demand to have a UN panel. It has shown lack of confidence in the investigation being carried out by the government agencies.
The official said on the receipt of the PPP request through its lawyer Farooq A Naik, the UN would neither contact Pakistan nor would it communicate to Islamabad its lack of action on the plea. The PPP wants the UN probe on the pattern of assassinated Lebanese former prime minister Rafik Hariri.
The United Nations passed several resolutions on the issue as the United States and Britain forcefully pressed for setting up of a commission in the wake of allegations that the Syrian intelligence headed by the Syrian president’s brother was involved in Hariri’s assassination, the official said. Syria denied its involvement.
In Ms Bhutto’s case, Washington and London have not endorsed the idea of a probe under the UN supervision. They have supported the investigation being conducted by the Pakistani government. Britain has sent a team of the Scotland Yard to assist in the probe.
The official pointed out that in the past two years the UN commission has submitted eight reports which were all inconclusive. The investigation is going nowhere, he said. He added this UN experiment had not so far been successful as the probe was still on. The official said there was no precedent in the world except the Hariri commission where the UN had formed a panel to investigate a high-profile political assassination in any country.