LAHORE, Jan 15: Pakistan People’s Party Deputy Information Secretary Sajjad Bokhari says his party will not join the national government and move the United Nations to form a commission to investigate the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a few days.

At a press conference here on Tuesday, he said a three-member committee, comprising Farooq Naik, Latif Khosa and Begum Abida Husain, had been constituted for approaching the UN for investigating the PPP leader’s murder on the pattern of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hurairi’s killing.

It had requested caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro to approach the UN, otherwise, the party would contact it directly. He said the PPP had not moved an application for lodging an FIR of Benazir’s assassination because the government had not registered a case of blast at the rally on her arrival in Karachi on Oct 18.

He said the PPP had no mistrust in the Scotland Yard team which had been called in by the government only to assist agencies in investigation into assassination. There was a need to unravel the conspiracy and expose the political motives behind the assassination, but the team was not even allowed to compile its own report.

Senator Bokhari said the PPP co-chairperson would make public Benazir’s will and start a tour of Punjab during the next few days and address public meetings. He said the PPP would not join any national government because there was no justification for it in the presence of President Pervez Musharraf.