NEW YORK, March 25: Zalmay Khalilzad, US Ambassador to the United Nations, said on Monday that the world body can consider Pakistan’s request for a UN investigation into the December assassination of Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto.
Talking to journalists at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, Mr Khalilzad said it all depended on the 15-member Security Council after it received such a request.
Responding to questions about the US-led war on terror, Mr Khalilzad said that the war could be re-calibrated by the new government keeping the new ground realities in mind.
On Monday, new Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani had expressed intention to seek a UN investigation into the assassination of Ms Bhutto. He asked the new National Assembly to pass a resolution calling for a UN investigation.
Pakistan government’s own investigation and a probe by the Scotland Yard blamed the militants in the tribal areas for the murder of Ms Bhutto, but their conclusions failed to satisfy the PPP leadership which continued to demand UN-led investigations.
