UNITED NATIONS, Saturday (AFP) -The three-member UN panel that will probe the 2007 slaying of former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto will begin its work on July 1 and will be led by Chile's UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, the world body said Friday.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has informed the Pakistani government that the enquiry commission “will commence its six-month mandate on July 1, 2009,” his spokeswoman Michele Montas told a press briefing.
She said the panel's mandate will be “to inquire into the facts and circumstances of the assassination,” making it clear that it would be up to Pakistani authorities to determine “the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators.
”The commission, which also includes Indonesian former attorney general Marzuki Darusman and Peter Fitzgerald, an Irish former top police official, is to submit its report to the UN boss, who will then share it with Islamabad and the Security Council.
Pakistan had called for a UN commission to probe the assassination of the two-time prime minister who was killed at a campaign rally, after her supporters were angered by conflicting accounts from the then-government of how she died.
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