UN report on Bhutto death delayed
Published:Tuesday | March 30, 2010 | 8:08 PM
A United Nations report into the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been delayed at Pakistan\'s request.
Mrs Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack during an election campaign as she left a rally in Rawalpindi in December 2007.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is said to have accepted a postponement of the release of the report until mid-April.
It was expected to be released this month.
A UN spokesman, Martin Nesirky, says he does not know the reason for the late request to hold the report back.
However, he has 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.