[Al Arabiya Latest] A United Nations commission appointed to investigate the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto began work on Wednesday, a spokesman said, almost two years after the former prime minister was killed. Right about on schedule...
Anyone see Carla del Ponte? Can't have an investigation start up without Carla ...
The panel, which has a six-month mandate, is being led by the Chilean ambassador to the U.N., Heraldo Munoz, and includes an Indonesian ex-attorney general and an Irish former police official.
" We want to know who was behind this, who had conspired it, who has financed it. And we think this was a big international conspiracy "Interior minister |
"The six-month mandate of the Benazir Bhutto commission of inquiry has begun today. The commission is expected to visit Pakistan but the dates are not determined yet," Hiro Ueki, a U.N. spokesman in Pakistan, told AFP.
Nah. Stay in Geneva. They got better restaurants.
The U.N. has said the panel will inquire into the facts and circumstances of the assassination, but have made clear it will be up to Pakistan to determine "the criminal responsibility of the perpetrators."
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said his government thought the murder was a "big international conspiracy. We want to know who was behind this, who had conspired it, who has financed it. And we think this was a big international conspiracy," Malik said in an interview with the BBC.
Damn right, Rehman. The Foreign Hand™ boys. That's my bet...
"Obviously, there might be some actors within Pakistan or within the region, but we want really to expose the whole conspiracy, because we think that this was a kind of a beginning of an attempt to Balkanize Pakistan," he said.
Oooh. Wouldn't want that...
It remains unclear who was behind Bhutto's killing but immediately after her murder, Pakistan blamed Qaeda and then the Taliban, both groups denied responsibility.
Binny, wuz it you?
Wuzzn't me, Blinky. Wuz it you?