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Islamabad, Sep 30 (IANS) The UN team investigating the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto Wednesday completed its task of collecting evidence related to the December 2007 murder.
The three-member UN team led by Chile’s envoy to the UN Heraldo Munoz recorded statements of all the political leaders and inspected the site where Bhutto, the wife of incumbent President Asif Ali Zardari, was killed, Online news agency reported.

Pakistan had earlier this year sought a UN probe into Bhuttto’s killing after its own investigations and one by Scotland Yard failed to make headway.

This was largely because the spot where Bhutto was killed was hosed down soon after, destroying the evidence that could have been gathered.

Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban commander killed in a US drone strike last month, is one of those suspected of having a hand in Bhutto’s assassination Dec 27, 2007 in a gun and bomb attack as she left a political rally in the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi.

The first UN team had visited Pakistan in April to lay the ground for the probe and had met officials of the interior ministry and law enforcing agencies.

This team met Pakistan’s interior minister Rehman Malik; Naheed Khan, then political secretary of Benazir Bhutto; Chaudhry Shujaat, the president of then ruling party PML-Q; retired Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema and other government high ups.

This is the third UN team to visit Pakistan in connection with Benazir Murder.

The probe is likely to cost the Pakistani government Rs.200 million.