By IRNA,
Islamabad : Pakistan has sent formal request to the United Nations to investigate the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, her widower Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday.
Benazir Bhutto was killed in firing and suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27 after she addressed an election rally.
The former government had refused to entertain the request from Bhutto’s Peoples Party for a UN probe and had invited a team of British detectives to help Pakistani police in the probe.
The authorities had blamed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsood for masterminding the assassination, the charge he has denied.
Zardari told reporters after speaking at the Socialist International Asia-Pacific Committee that the government has formally sent the request to the UN to probe into Bhutto’s murder.
Secretary-General of the Socialist International, Mr. Luis Ayala supported Pakistan’s request to the UN for an international inquiry into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Law Minister Farooq H Naek are likely to visit the United Nations next month to meet the UN Secretary General.
Zardari would lead a delegation of the Social Republicans to Myanmar to press for release of the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and to allow her to meet her children.