Islamabad/United Nations , April 1: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari wants a UN-constituted panel looking into the killing of his wife Benazir Bhutto to quiz four major international personalities, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai and former United States secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, as they had prior information about threats to her life.

But the United Nations says there is no need to include any further information as the report by a three-member independent commission, led by Chile’s UN envoy Heraldo Munoz, on the December 2007 assassination is “complete”.
Mr Zardari has “quietly given names of four international personalities — United States ex-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin (bin Abdul Aziz) and the UAE intelligence chief — to the United Nations inquiry commission to ask them: how did they know in advance that Benazir Bhutto would be killed?”, The News reported here Thursday.
This also ends a two-year-long controversy on which two countries had warned the PPP leader about a possible attack on her life when she returned to Pakistan from self-exile in October 2007, the newspaper said. These two have now been identified as the UAE and Saudi Arabia.     —PTI
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PM to states: Join historic school drive
Age Correspondent
New Delhi

April 1: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in an address on Thursday to mark the coming into force of the landmark Right to Education Act, asked all states to join “with full resolve and determination” in the national effort to ensure that every child could go to school, pledging financial constraints would not be allowed to come in the way.
Dr Singh recounted how he had to walk long distances to go to school, said: “I am what I am today because of education.”
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