The New Nation - Internet Edition

AFP, Karachi

Former slain Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party on Wednesday sent an appeal to the United Nations requesting it investigate her murder, a party official said. Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and suicide bomb attack at an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27 but conflicting government accounts of how exactly she died have angered her supporters. "We have sent today an appeal to the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon signed by our co-chairman Asif Zardari to form a UN-led commission to probe the assassination of Benazir Bhutto," Farooq Naek, Bhutto's lawyer, said. "We have appealed to the UN secretary general and the Security Council to form a commission just like it was formed to probe Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri's murder," he said. Naek said that in the appeal Bhutto's widower Zardari had expressed his no-confidence in the ability of the Pakistani agencies investigating the murder.