ISLAMABAD: An advance team of the UN commission to probe into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination arrived here on Thursday. The United Nations commission will start its formal inquiry into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto from Thursday (today).The members of the team — Boonrod Tanarak, Pitak Isan and R. Pothathong — were received at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport by senior officials of interior ministry and the Foreign Office. Senior members of the inquiry commission, Chile’s permanent representative to the UN Heraldo Munoz, Marzuki Darusman and Peter Fitzgerald, are among team. The members of the commission were expected to be in the country until July 19, a source said.Talking to the BBC on Wednesday, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said the commission would arrive in Islamabad on Thursday (today) while a technical team had already visited Pakistan. It has been learnt that one member of the commission has already arrived while two members will reach today. But no official confirmation has been made in this connection. However, the spokesman did not divulge the details regarding the working of the probe team. The commission is headed by Chile’s ambassador to UN Heraldo Munoz. The other two members are: former Indonesian attorney general Marzuki Darusman and former senior Irish police officer Peter Fitzgerald. The inquiry will last six months and investigate the “facts and circumstances” of Benazir Bhutto’s death who was killed as she had left a rally of Pakistan People’s Party supporters in Rawalpindi in December 2007. According to sources, the UN Commission after completing its investigation within six months would send report to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the UN to share that report with the Pakistani government
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