UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will not reopen the Benazir Bhutto Inquiry Commission’s work in response to a letter sent by Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

“The secretary general intends to reply to the letter written by Pakistan’s foreign minister soon,” a spokesman for the UN chief said in response to a question at a press briefing on Thursday.

He said the secretary general had full faith and confidence in the work of the UN commission which was led by Ambassador Heraldo Munoz of Chile.

In his letter Foreign Minister Qureshi questioned the “credibility and reliability” of the report and said that “the lack of source attribution leads to vagueness and ambiguity in some parts of the report which has undermined its credibility as a fact-finding report”.

Similarly, the commission did not mention the procedural yardsticks by which it had tested the documents, materials or information before their incorporation in the report ought to have been added in order to give greater weight to findings of the report”.

He said the report had a serious flaw because the commission had failed to approach third states o to provide some reliable information to unearth, if any, international linkages perpetrating, planning, financing or abetting the assassination of Ms Bhutto, although there was mention and reliance on such sources belonging to third states.

No doubt there were hiccups , and the commission should have taken more time and effort in this regard, but unfortunately it appears that it paid scant attention to this aspect and instead has tended to focus on internal matters.

Courtesy by dawn.com