A UN report into the assassination of the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has found that the former military government of General Pervez Musharraf failed to properly protect her.
Ms Bhutto, a former prime minister, was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack in Rawalpindi in December 2007, just weeks after she returned to Pakistan from eight years in self-imposed exile.
The report also found that the Pakistani authorities failed to properly investigate the killing and that elements within the military and security establishment tried to hamper the UN inquiry.
Pakistan has said it will study the report before giving its reaction to its findings.
The UN report, which was requested by President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan People's Party government, was turned over to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday.
Mr Zardari, who is Ms Bhutto’s widower, took over the party leadership after her assassination and was elected president of the country in September 2008.
Pakistan said last week it had asked that the release, initially scheduled for 30 March, be delayed so that input from Afghanistan, the US and Saudi Arabia could be included.
