UN likely to investigate Bhutto’s murder: Pakistan

October 11th, 2009 MUMBAI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanded Sunday that Pakistan should try and punish those who masterminded the Mumbai terror attack last year. The prime minister told reporters here that diplomatic pressure from India and the international community had forced Pakistan to admit for the first time that its nationals were involved in the terror assault that killed some 170 people.

September 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A third UN team has arrived here to probe the December 2007 assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The six-member team is scheduled to meet former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and other political leaders, as also officials of the interior ministry and the law enforcement agencies.

August 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A columnist with Pakistan's Dawn newspaper has said that former president general Pervez Musharraf should be man enough to come back to Pakistan and face the music for his alleged misdemeanours while in power. According to Kamran Shafi, it is extremely critical that a general of an army whose brass hats consider Pakistan their inherited fiefdom, is tried, and hopefully convicted for rebellion against an elected government, and sentenced to a term in prison like any other person who has violated the law.

July 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The UN inquiry commission probing the assassination of the former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has completed its first round of investigations and left the country. During its three-day stay in Pakistan, the commission met President Asif Ali Zardari, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Interior Advisor Rehman Malik.

July 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Arresting federal ministers Babar Awan and Rehman Malik could lead to the masterminds of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Chaudhury Aslam has said. Aslam said he has already written a letter to the UN Commission probing the assassination asking it to arrest the ministers.

July 17th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that his government had requested for an independent UN probe into late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination because it didn't want to face any accusation of bias in the future. "We approached the UN because firstly we wanted transparent and above board investigations so that there were no accusations of bias.

July 14th, 2009 RAWALPINDI - Two officials of the United Nations technical assessment team paid a surprise visit to the spot in Liaquat Bagh where former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack on December 27, 2007. A senior police official on Monday said that the UN officials visited Liaquat Bagh to assess the security arrangements in the area and its surroundings, in order to ensure foolproof arrangements for members of the UN Commission due to arrive in Pakistan to probe Benazir's murder.

July 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will contribute 500,000 dollars to the United Nations (UN) Trust Fund, for a UN commission enquiry into the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Presidential spokesperson, Farhatullah Babar said the UAE Embassy had already informed the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) of the decision.

July 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A UN panel began an inquiry Wednesday into the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto 18 months after her death. The three-member commission - headed by Chile's ambassador to the United Nations, Heraldo Munoz - is to examine the facts and circumstances of the murder.

June 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - With the United Nations (UN) set to start investigations into the assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto from next month, Pakistan has been asked to provide English translations of Urdu documents of the probe conducted so far. The UN subcommission, which would be probing the assassination of the former premier for six months, has asked Islamabad to send two copies of the investigation report prepared by Pakistan intelligence agencies.

June 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Alleging that the former President General Prevez Musharraf was responsible for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has urged the government to put the autocratic ruler on trial. The PML-N asked the government to register a first information report (FIR) against Musharraf for Bhutto's assassination and put his name on the Exit Control List (ECL), The Daily Times reports.

April 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A documentary based on the life of the assassinated Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been awarded a Certificate of Merit at the Chicago Film Festival Hugo Television Awards. The documentary titled "Benazir and Democracy" was awarded in the History and Biography category for its contribution in depicting the future of democracy in Pakistan, The Daily Times reports.

April 7th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Terming the hanging of late Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as a 'judicial murder', Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Tuesday said the government was consulting legal experts on whether his trial could be reopened. 'It is my duty to apprise the nation that the murder of Bhutto was a judicial murder and we are consulting the legal experts and will get back to you,' the official APP news agency quoted Gilani as saying.

April 4th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The 30th death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's first elected prime minister, was observed Saturday with special prayers and memorial meetings across the country and especially in his home province Sindh. Bhutto, the founder of the country's ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), had been overthrown by then army chief Gen.

December 31st, 2008 KARACHI - Pakistan's Information Minister Sherry Rehman has said the killers of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto will be exposed soon, the Online news agency reported. Registration of an FIR against the person who fired on Bhutto will expose the killer, but Pakistan wants the UN should expose the people behind the assassination, Rehman said while addressing a seminar here Wednesday.