A United Nations inquiry has found the Pakistani government failed to protect former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination and then failed to properly investigate her death. On Thursday, the inquiry chair, Chilean diplomat Heraldo Muñoz, presented the findings of a nine-month probe at the United Nations.

Heraldo Muñoz: “A range of government officials failed profoundly in their efforts, first, to protect Ms. Bhutto and, second, to investigate with vigor all those responsible for her murder, not only in the execution of the attack, but also in its conception, planning and financing.”

Muñoz went on to say the Pakistani government failed to protect Bhutto at both the federal and local level.

Heraldo Muñoz: “The federal government failed in its primary responsibility to provide effective protection to Ms. Bhutto on her return to Pakistan. Ms. Bhutto’s assassination could have been prevented if the Rawalpindi District Police had taken adequate security measures. The security arrangements for Ms. Bhutto by the Rawalpindi District Police were ineffective and insufficient.”

The UN inquiry is also calling on Pakistan to conduct its own probe of Bhutto’s death.