UN Commission To Public Report on Benazir Murder Case

Latest Updates About UN Commission To Public Report on Benazir Murder Case The United Nations three-member commission will formally present its report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today.The commission was to present its report on March 30 but delayed it at the request of President Asif Ali Zardari.

A UN spokesman has said that the independent commission, which looked into the facts and circumstances of the December 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto, will unveil its report on Thursday afternoon.

The three-member commission will formally present its report to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at 04:30 p.m. local time on Thursday (01:30 PST Friday), and he will then turn it over to Pakistan's UN Ambassador Hussain Abdullah Haroon. Ban will also submit it to the Security Council for information.

After presenting the report to Ban, the head of the commission, Chile's UN Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, will release the report at a press conference at 05:30 p.m. (02:30 PST Friday).

UN officials say that the commission had completed its work and that the inquiry will not be reopened. Pakistan had proposed that the commission interview more international figures, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai and former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The commission was set up following a request from the Pakistani Government and began its work in July 2009. It included 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.

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