LARKANA, Jan 12: The Pakistan People’s Party will on its own send a request to the UN for setting up a commission to probe Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.

Sources told Dawn here on Saturday that a 48-hour ultimatum given to the government by the PPP for submitting the request had expired. The party said it had not received any reply from the government.

The party sources said President Pervez Musharraf, in an interview to a French newspaper, had clearly said the government would not request the UN for a commission.

Asked why had the party not made a request to the president, as its letter was addressed to the caretaker prime minister, the source said “even from him no reply came”.

The PPP also plans to send delegations to a number of countries to urge them to pressure the government to allow a UN-led investigation.