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A United Nations report into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto has been delayed at Pakistan's request. | A United Nations report into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto has been delayed at Pakistan's request. |
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accepted a postponement until mid-April hours before its scheduled release. | UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accepted a postponement until mid-April hours before its scheduled release. |
Pakistan's former prime minister was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack during an election campaign as she left a rally in Rawalpindi in December 2007. | |
A UN spokesman, Martin Nesirky, said he did not know the reason for the late request to hold the report back. | A UN spokesman, Martin Nesirky, said he did not know the reason for the late request to hold the report back. |
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Mr Nesirky confirmed that the report had been finished and that neither the UN secretary general nor the Pakistani government had seen it. | Mr Nesirky confirmed that the report had been finished and that neither the UN secretary general nor the Pakistani government had seen it. |
He also said that there would not have been a delay unless there had been good reasons. | |
The report, withheld at the request of Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari - Mrs Bhutto's widower - follows a nine-month inquiry into the facts and circumstances of the killing. | |
Pakistan's ex-president Mr Musharraf had refused to seek a UN probe | |
The three-person inquiry team was led by Chile's ambassador to the UN, Heraldo Munoz. | The three-person inquiry team was led by Chile's ambassador to the UN, Heraldo Munoz. |
It also includes Marzuki Darusman, the former Indonesian attorney-general, and Peter Fitzgerald, who led an early inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. | It also includes Marzuki Darusman, the former Indonesian attorney-general, and Peter Fitzgerald, who led an early inquiry into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. |
The panel was set up following a request from Pakistan's coalition government, led by Mrs Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party. | |
The previous government, led by allies of former President Pervez Musharraf, had blamed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud for the assassination. He was killed in a US drone strike last August. | |
The trials of several Islamist militants charged in connection with the assassination are ongoing. | |
Mrs Bhutto was the first woman to become prime minister of a Muslim country. No post-mortem examination was held following her death. |