By IRNA
Islamabad : Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Tuesday insisted on the investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto through the United Nations.
Bhutto was killed in firing and suicide bombing soon after she addressed a big public meeting in Rawalpindi on December 27.
Circumstances of Bhutto’s death had sparked a controversy between the PPP and the government as the party says she was killed by an assassin bullet but the government says she died when hit by her bullet-proof car.
British police joined Pakistani experts to probe the assassination of Benazir Bhutto but PPP demands the investigations through United Nations on the pattern of Rafik Hariri, the slain Lebanese Prime Minister.
President Musharraf has ruled out UN probe saying that no third country is involved in the killing of Bhutto and that is why her case if different than Hariri.
“We demand the UN inquiry to find out as to who were behind Benazir Bhutto’s murder, ” Senator Dr. Babar Awan insisted.
“The whole nation demands UN probe but one personality is opposing the idea,” the PPP leader told IRNA in an interview over phone that the PPP has completed diplomatic work for taking up the matter with UN and has requested for time for meeting with certain representatives of other countries.
Awan showed lukewarm response to a proposal by another opposition group for establishment of a national government to hold parliamentary elections.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been demanding formation of a government of national consensus to organize general elections under a new and independent election commission.
But the PPP is not in a mood to support the idea of national government before the parliamentary elections set for February 18.
“Pakistan Peoples Party will consider the proposal of national government after elections,” Awan said.
“We will discuss the proposal with like-minded parties after victory in elections,” Babar said.
The elections were earlier scheduled to be held on January 8 but were postponed due to violence followed by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Angry protestors burnt hundreds of banks, officers, buses, patrol stations, railway stations and shops after Bhutto’s murder across the country especially in southern Sindh province.
The Chief Election Commissioner postponed the elections as local elections offices were burnt in Sindh province and that ballot papers could not be printed in the violence-hit areas.