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Musharraf Formally Arrested over Bhutto Killing
[An Nahar] Pakistain's former military ruler  Pervez PervMusharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... was on Thursday formally incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! over the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , prosecutors said. The Bhutto case is the second of three cases dating back to his 1999-2008 rule for which Musharraf has been arrested. The latest arrest came a day after a Pak court refused to extend his bail. Musharraf will remain in his villa on the edge of Islamabad where he is already under a two-week house arrest over his decision to sack judges when he imposed emergency rule in November 2007. "Today FIA (federal investigative agency) formally arrested General Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto case," prosecution lawyer Chaudhry Azhar told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone. On Wednesday a court in Rawalpindi, the garrison city twinned to Islamabad where Bhutto was killed, rejected Musharraf's bail application. Musharraf is accused of conspiracy to murder Bhutto, who died in a gun and suicide kaboom in December 2007. His arrest and disqualification from contesting elections on May 11 have been a humiliating blow for the former ruler of nuclear-armed Pakistain, who returned home last month promising to "save" the country. Nobody has been convicted or nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for Bhutto's liquidation on December 27, 2007, despite a long-running court case. Musharraf's government blamed Bhutto's killing on Pak Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who denied any involvement and who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in August 2009. In 2010 a U.N. report said Bhutto's death could have been prevented and accused Musharraf's government of failing to give her adequate protection. Bhutto's son, Bilawal BabyBhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... , who is chairman of the outgoing Pakistain People's Party, has accused Musharraf of her murder. Posted by: Fred 2013-04-26 |
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