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UN commission investigates Bhutto’s death

By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad

Published: July 1 2009 03:36 | Last updated: July 1 2009 03:36

A UN-appointed commission will on Wednesday begin a fresh investigation in to the 2007 assassination of Pakistan’s former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, whose death continues to be the focus of conspiracy theories across the south Asian country.

The commission is led by Heraldo Munoz, Chile’s ambassador to the UN. The members are Marzuki Darusman, the former Indonesian attorney-general, and Peter Fitzgerald, who has served the UN previously as head of the initial mission of inquiry into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

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