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NA urges UN probe into BB’s killing
By Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD—National Assembly on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution
for probe by the UN into the suicide attack on Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.
While presenting the resolution in NA on Monday, Federal Minister for
Law and Parliamentary Affairs Farooq H Naik informed the House that we
demand an exclusive investigation into the gruesome suicide blast that
resulted in the martyrdom of our leader Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi’s
Liaqat Bagh Rally on December 27.
The Members of the Assembly unanimously approved the resolution in this
regard. On the occasion, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was presented
in the House. It must be mentioned here that before the formation of
incumbent Government, Previous Government probed the killing of BB from
Scotland Yard Team but it failed to yield positive result. The SYT
presented its report to the Government but PPP absolutely rejected the
report and demanded to investigate the gruesome killing of BB from
United Nations.
National Assembly Monday passed a resolution regarding holding the
inquiry into former PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s murder through UN.
Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naik tabled the resolution, which
recommended the house to contact UN for probe into the grievous death of
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, so that an international Investigation
Commission is set up to investigate into the unfortunate incident. The
commission will be aimed at uncovering the miscreants behind her murder,
those who funded this crime and organized it. And the commission will
drag the culprits to the dock. The house passed the resolution
unanimously. Pakistan’s parliament, dominated by President Pervez
Musharraf’s opponents, passed a resolution on Monday urging the
government to seek a U.N. investigation of the killing of former prime
minister Benazir Bhutto.
Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi on
Dec. 27 as she was coming out of an election rally. “(It) should probe
and identify the culprits, perpetrators, organisers and financiers
behind this heinous crime and bring them to justice,” Law Minister
Farooq Naek said of the investigation he wants set up.
Musharraf, who has become increasingly isolated after the crushing
defeat of his allies in a Feb. 18 election, has opposed a U.N.
investigation of Bhutto’s killing. British police helped investigate the
assassination and they backed up the government’s explanation of how
Bhutto was killed. The previous government and the U.S. CIA accused
Baitullah Mehsud, an al Qaeda-linked militant commander based on the
Afghan border, of killing Bhutto, a staunch supporter of the U.S.-led
campaign against Islamist militancy. |