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UN to Set Up Commission into Bhutto's Death

11/07/08July 11, 2008

The Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the UN had agreed to set up a commission to investigate the killing of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Friday The foreign minister told reporters on Thursday that the commission’s main objective would be to identify those behind the assassination. Bhutto died on December 27 2007 in a gun-and-suicide-bomb attack as she was leaving an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi.

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Many Pakistanis were not satisfied with Scotland Yard's investigation and are looking to the UN for alternative insights
Many Pakistanis were not satisfied with Scotland Yard's investigation and are looking to the UN for alternative insightsImage: picture-alliance/ dpa