Musharraf 'questioned' over Bhutto case

Wed Nov 18, 2009

A team of UN investigators looking into the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007 has questioned former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf.

According to the United Nations, the team arrived in Pakistan in July and questioned dozens of individuals over the circumstances surrounding Bhutto's assassination.

"The Commission of Inquiry had a frank, open and cordial conversation with former president Musharraf, having been able to pose to him many queries on issues central to its mandate," a statement from the UN said on Wednesday.

Bhutto, the two time prime minister of Pakistan, was targeted in a suicide gun-and-bomb attack in December 2007 as she was leaving an election rally in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.

Her assassination threw the country into a crisis and left questions unresolved for Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and many of her supporters.

London's Scotland Yard also conducted an inquiry into the assassination and ruled that Bhutto died from the force of a suicide bomb and not by gunfire.

The panel, led by the Chilean ambassador to the UN, Heraldo Munoz, will submit a report to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the end of the year, which will be shared with the Pakistani government and the UN Security Council.

The UN team has stressed that its mandate is limited to fact-finding and does not include a criminal investigation.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/111594.html.