Court orders Musharraf be probed in Bhutto's
murder
Tuesday April 23, 2013 03:23:50 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: A
Pakistani anti-terrorism court, conducting the trial of suspects
charged with involvement in the 2007 assassination of former prime
minister Benazir Bhutto, Tuesday ordered that former president
Pervez Musharraf be included in the investigation process.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which is investigating the
Bhutto assassination, told the court in the garrison city of
Rawalpindi that the former military ruler has not yet been
formally included in the case, reported Xinhua.
Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman directed the FIA to complete the
investigation and submit a report in the apex court. The hearing
was adjourned until May 3.
Musharraf has been accused of failing to provide adequate security
to Bhutto when she returned to Pakistan from exile in 2007. She
was killed in a suicide bombing and firing in Rawalpindi shortly
after she addressed an election rally.
The court had previously declared Musharraf an "absconder" and
issued an arrest warrant for him after he failed to cooperate with
investigators when he was living in self-exile. He returned last
month and also got interim bail in the case. The court will hear
his bail in this case Wednesday.
The court earlier directed authorities to attach his properties
and to freeze his bank accounts.
The FIA prosecutors told the court that the former president is
allegedly involved in the assassination of former prime minister
Benazir Bhutto because of his failure to provide her adequate
security.
Musharraf, despite being aware of the imminent danger to Bhutto's
life, did not take the requisite security measures to prevent her
assassination, according to a 57-page investigation report
submitted earlier before the court.
Pervez Musharraf appeared before the court where his supporters
and a group of anti-Musharraf lawyers clashed, leaving two lawyers
injured. The two sides beat each other and later angry lawyers
used sticks and beat some of Mushararf's supporters. The lawyers
also smashed windows of a car of Mushararf's men.
Musharraf has dismissed all charges as politically motivated and
insisted that he had warned Benazir Bhutto of imminent threats to
her life. He also said that he had advised Benazir Bhutto not to
return to the country in view of threats but she had ignored his
advice.
The former president is also facing high treason charges for
abrogation of the constitution when he imposed emergency rule in
2007.
Five individuals have filed petitions for high treason proceedings
in the Supreme Court. However, the interim government has refused
to pursue the case because of its limited role. The interim
government has prayed to the apex court to leave the case to the
next elected government.
Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008, has also been
disqualified for the May 11 parliamentary elections due to
criminal cases against him in court and for imposing emergency
rule.
He is now leading his own All Pakistan Muslim League party.
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