New York, June 20, SPA -- An independent commission will start investigating the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in July, the United Nations has announced. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 at a campaign rally. Bhutto, 54, was heading the opposition to then-President Pervez Musharraf when she was killed at a December campaign rally in Rawalpindi ahead of parliamentary elections. "The duty of determining criminal responsibility of the perpetrators of the assassination remains with the Pakistani authorities," according to a U.N. news release quoted today by CNN. The commission will have six months to fact-find and report to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who announced the commission in February, the release said. Moon is expected to share the findings with the U.N. Security Council and the Pakistani government, which requested the commission. Ambassador Heraldo Munoz of Chile will lead the three-person effort, which is to include Marzuki Darusman, a former attorney general for Indonesia, and Peter Fitzgerald, a veteran of the Irish National Police.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/676438