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UN's Ban Ki-moon, Pakistan agree on probe into Bhutto's killing

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NEW YORK, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the UN have agreed to set up an independent commission to investigate the assassination of former leader Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistan foreign minister said on Friday.

The PPP head, Bhutto was killed in a shooting and bombing attack at an opposition rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, that also took the lives of more than two dozen bystanders. The exact cause of her death is still disputed.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said after a meeting with the UN Secretary General that further talks were needed, but that a general agreement had been reached on "the nature of the proposed commission, funding, composition of the commission, unhindered access to all sources of relevant information and elements to safeguard the objectivity, impartiality and independence of the commission."

The minister said that the main purpose of the commission was to bring those responsible for Bhutto's death "to justice."

After Bhutto's assassination, who twice served as the country's prime minister and was to run in January parliamentary elections, violence escalated further in the country, with dozens killed in bomb attacks and riots. The government had to postpone the elections, which the PPP won, until February 18.

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