UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram, on Wednesday described as an “exaggeration” a media report claiming that U.N. investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto would cost over $100 million.

“That is an exaggeration. It (the cost) will be only a fraction of that amount,” Ambassador Akram said when asked for comments.

As regards the timeframe for the probe, he said that would depend on the independent commission, which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was in the process of constituting in response to the Pakistan government request.

The commission will be entrusted to identify the killers of the former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto “with a view to bring them to justice”, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a statement he read out at a press conference in New York on July 10.

Since then Pakistan and the United Nations have been in consultations on the modalities and details of the probe.

Ms. Bhutto was killed in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi on December 27 at an election rally. APP

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