Pakistan to tap Interpol for Musharraf's arrest
Saturday February 25, 2012 08:12:13 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Pakistan's
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been directed to write to
global policing agency Interpol for issuing an arrest warrant
against former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, Interior
Minister Rehman Malik has said.
Malik said the FIA would approach the Interpol within a few days
for a warrant to arrest the former military leader and bring him
back to the country to face charges of involvement in the
assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
"We have started the procedure and we will bring Musharraf back to
the country soon," Malik was quoted as saying by the Daily Times.
A UN report in 2010 accused the Musharraf-led government of
failing to protect Bhutto, who had returned to Pakistan from exile
to run for parliamentary elections and the prime minister's post.
Musharraf, who has been living in exile in London and Dubai since
resigning in 2008, has denied the allegations.
He has also been charged with involvement in the killing of Baloch
tribal leader Akbar Bugti, detaining judges of several courts as
well as abducting a nuclear scientist.
Bugti was widely perceived to be creating a wave of terrorism in
Balochistan in 2004. He went into hiding in 2005 and was killed in
August 2006 in a cave in Kohlu, about 240 km from Quetta.
The Balochistan High Court in November last year issued arrest
warrants for Musharraf in the Bugti murder case.
In the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, an anti-terrorism court in
Rawalpindi has declared Musharraf a "proclaimed offender" as he
did not appear for a hearing.
Musharraf was also declared a proclaimed offender by a court in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the alleged abduction of nuclear scientist
Attiqur Rehman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission in 2004.
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