Pakistan officially asks UN to probe Bhutto slaying

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Pakistan's new government has officially asked the United Nations to investigate the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last December, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said Friday.

She said the request was contained in a letter from Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi delivered to UN chief Ban Ki-moon by the Pakistani ambassador here Friday.

"The Secretary General has not taken a decision on it yet. He has just received the letter and the letter is being studied," she added.

The UN has already hinted that the request was unlikely to be approved, notably because no foreign country is suspected of involvement in the Bhutto murder.

UN sources also say the cost of such a probe would be prohibitively expensive for uncertain...