The Pakistan government will not order a new probe into former premier Benazir Bhutto's assassination and await a court's decision on the issue, according to a media report on Friday.
"We will wait for the court decision and then evolve a future line of action," Information Minister Pervez Rashid said.
"Since the matter is in court, we cannot initiate a separate investigation," he said when asked about Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's statement before the May polls that his PML-N party would expose Bhutto's killers if it came to power.
Four investigations have already been carried out and the case is being by an anti-terrorism court.
"Let us see what the court decides on the investigation reports already submitted to it," Rashid told a local daily.
Bhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 by a suicide bomber after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan was blamed for the attack.
The first probe was carried out by a joint investigation team, the second by the Scotland Yard, the third by a UN commission and the fourth by the Federal Investigation Agency.
Former president Pervez Musharraf and some senior police officers of Punjab have been charged for not providing adequate security to Bhutto despite knowing of threats to her life.
Five persons are also facing trial on charges of involvement in the assassination.
Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party on Friday organised events across the country to mark her death anniversary.
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