RAWALPINDI, April 20 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) judge Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan on Monday proposed local judicial committee to coordinate with the United Nations Commission in investigation of Benazir Bhutto assassination.

The ICJ judge was delivering a lecture on international criminal law at the High Court Bar Association (HCBA) Rawalpindi bench.

Justice Chohan, who had served as Lahore High Court (LHC) judge till 2006, said if local support was not provided to the investigators, the outcome of their investigation would not be different from that of Scotland Yard's last year.

Knowledge of the local law and liaison with different sections of the society is necessary for the UN commission headed by a diplomat to get to any positive outcome as many pieces of evidences have either been destroyed or could not be collected by the law enforcement agencies, he said.

Pakistan has sought investigation of Benazir Bhutto's assassination on the lines of Rafique Hariri murder probe. After the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister the Beirut government wrote to the international body that their law enforcers were unable and unreliable to carry out the investigation at their own and find facts.

The judge said the International Criminal Court had been established on the basis of norms and some countries had ratified the court saying they would accept its decisions. But majority of the member states including Pakistan and India have not ratified the court as according to them it was not a UN body.

He said The Hague had become centre of international laws and jurisprudence had been growing making way for enhanced intellectualism that helped in working out legal solutions of international problems. More and more work is being done on international criminal law as different categories of crime against humanity had been put in the list of international crime.

The justice urged the Muslim world to come up with their own international criminal court to penalize the perpetrators of crime against humanity. Such a court can deter the absolute monarch and army dictators in the Muslim world as they commit atrocities against hapless people.

Appreciating the lawyers struggle for the restoration of deposed judges, the ICJ Judge called it Black Tie Revolution unprecedented in the history of the world. The movement of the lawyers has created a deterrent for the future adventurers and now it was upon the bar and the bench to jointly work for provision of speedy justice to the down-trodden.

His lecture was followed by a question-answer sessions and in response to a question the international jurist said veto powers had been given to five countries under the laws of the UN and if states did not like the law, they should change it through general assembly of the UN.