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For some critics, the new inquiry is too limited in scope and comes too late. "It is an insult to the intelligence of the people, at the expense of millions of dollars," says Iqbal Haider, who served as attorney general and law minister in Bhutto's governments. "What would an...
Now, the government led by Bhutto's widower, President Asif Ali Zardari, hopes that the United Nations to settle the matter of who orchestrated the assassination. On Wednesday, a U.N. fact-finding commission launched its inquiry into Bhutto's assassination. A three-person team, headed by Chile's ambassador to...
The demand for a U.N. probe was partly inspired by the international body's investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri four years ago, says Hussain Haroon, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N. "We thoroughly investigated the Hariri case, but there were some pitfalls there that...
That image has now taken a hit. In its final report, released yesterday, Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a body modeled on South Africa's historic truth commission, says Johnson Sirleaf should be banned from government for 30 years for her early support of former Liberian President Charles...
“We need to conserve the services that are absolutely necessary to our economy,” said State Senator Mary Ann Handley, a Democrat. But which services are “necessary”? Though Democrats sliced $2 billion from the budget, they saved items that were...