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UN and Pakistan agree to set up panel to investigate Bhutto killing
Pakistan's Foreign Minister says UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has agreed in principal to set up a panel to investigate the December 2007 assasination of the former Prime Minister.
- Agencies
- Published: 09:32 July 11, 2008
- Image Credit: AP
- A girl looks at photographs of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on display at an exhibition in Islamabad on Friday.
Islamabad: The UN and Pakistan have agreed a deal to set up an investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
News of the deal was announced on Thursday night when Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon had agreed in principal to a request to set up a panel.
The UN has also released a statement saying that an understanding had been reached and that more consultation is needed.
Speaking after the meeting with Mr Ban, Qureshi said that "In principle we have decided to move on, but the modalities have to be discussed."
He added that the panel would probably look into the people responsible for organizing and financing the killing as well as those who helped carry out the attack in December 2007.
Benazir Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack at a rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, not long after returning from exile in Dubai to lead her Pakistan People's Party.
She had already survived one bomb attack at a rally in Karachi on the day of her return to Pakistan.
More than 100 people were killed in that series of blasts.
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