Pakistan Court Sends Musharraf To Lock-up For Two-weeks

Islamabad, May 1, IRNA – A court in Pakistan Tuesday ordered that Perviz Musharraf will remain in judicial lock-up for two more weeks over the assassination of ex-Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. Musharraf was not produced before the Anti-Terrorism Court on Tuesday over security concerns and the judge passed the order in his absence. Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008 and returned from self-exile last month, has been accused of failing to provide adequate security to Benazir Bhutto when she returned to Pakistan from exile in 2007. The former President has denied all charges and said that he was not directly responsible for Benazir’s security and it was the responsibility of the local authorities. The court on April 26 had remanded him for fours days to the Federal Investigation Agency, which is investigation the killing of Benazir Bhutto in a suicide bomb attack and firing in the garrison city of Rawalpindi./end