By NNN-APP,
United Nations : The chairman of the U.N. commission charged with examining the facts and circumstances behind the December 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto said Tuesday that the 3-member body was making progress, but he could not say whether its report would be ready by the end of this year.
“It is really hard to say,” Ambassador Heraldo Munoz of Chile, who heads the commission said, when asked at a news briefing whether the report would be presented to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon by the scheduled date – Dec 31.
“We’re working hard and advancing, but there is a great deal of work to be done,” he added.
Munoz praised the cooperation being extended by the government of Pakistan, the civil society and the country’s politicians.
“We have interviewed many people,” the chairman said.
When his attention was drawn to an Indian press report that the commission was finding it hard to interview former president Pervez Musharraf, he said, “That is incorrect”. He would not elaborate.
According to informed sources, the commission members would make their third and final trip to Pakistan at the end of this month.
The Commission of Inquiry, which formally started its work on July 1, has held meetings with a range of Pakistani citizens, diverse political party leaders and Government officials, and also gathered additional materials relevant to the inquiry.
During its previous visit in July, the three-member Commission visited Rawalpindi where Bhutto was killed and held meetings with top officials.
The other members of the commission are: Marzuki Darusman, the former attorney-general of Indonesia, and Peter Fitzgerald, a veteran of the Irish National Police who has also served the UN in a number of capacities.