Newyork , 15th December 2009 : The United Nations is “positively considering” a three month extension to the commission probing into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said.

The mandate of the Commission expires by the end of this month.

Ban said he has received an official request from Ambassador Heraldo Munoz, who is the chairman of this inquiry Commission investigating into the death of Bhutto to extend it for another three months, because of limited time.

“They need more time to continue their investigation.

I think this is reasonable. And I am positively considering extending it for another three months,” Ban told reporters at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Bhutto was killed on December 27, 2007, in a gun-and-suicide-bomb attack as she was leaving an election rally in the garrison town of Rawalpindi.