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Pakistan asks Interpol to help arrest Perv | ||
2012-02-22 | ||
Pakistan will ask Interpol for help in arresting former president Pervez Musharraf for his failure to prevent the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the country's interior minister has said. Rehman Malik said the government was seeking Musharraf's arrest because he allegedly failed to provide adequate security for Bhutto, who was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack in 2007. He made the comments in a televised address to lawmakers in Sindh province, Bhutto's political stronghold. Interpol, based in Lyon, France, had no immediate comment.
A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf last year over the allegations. Musharraf, an ex-army general who wants to return to Pakistan to contest what will be bitterly contested elections likely this year, said the government was playing politics over the case. Musharraf has repeatedly denied any legal responsibility for the killing. "This is all politics," he told ARY television station on Tuesday. "It's just point scoring and nothing else." Legal expert Hashmat Habib said Interpol has the right to detain Musharraf and hand him over to Pakistan if it chooses to issue a warrant. But it is unclear how the international police organisation will respond, or indeed whether Malik will go ahead with his threat.
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Posted by:Steve White |
#1 Is Perv any different from Hamid Gul and General Beg? |
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303 2012-02-22 13:41 |