Islamabad: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's judicial remand over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007 was extended by a fortnight on Tuesday by an anti-terrorism court. The court of Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman in Rawalpindi extended Musharraf's judicial remand till May 28 and also put off hearing his bail application till May 20, prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar told reporters.
The next hearing of the Bhutto assassination case will be held on May 28. Musharraf's lawyer Salman Safdar did not attend Tuesday's hearing. This was the first hearing after Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, the chief prosecutor handling the 2008 Mumbai attacks and Bhutto's assassination, was shot dead by suspected militants in Islamabad on May 3.
Musharraf, 69, has been accused of failing to provide adequate security to two-time former premier Benazir Bhutto when she returned to Pakistan from self-exile. Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber after addressing an election rally in Rawalpindi in December 2007.
The former military ruler returned from self-exile in March to lead his party in the May 11 general election but the Peshawar High Court barred him from contesting polls for the rest of his life. Musharraf is also facing charges over the sacking of judges during the 2007 emergency and the killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti in a 2006 military operation. Following his arrest in several cases, Musharraf is being held at his farmhouse on the outskirts of Islamabad, which has been declared a "sub-jail" by authorities....
02:06 PM, May 14, 2013
Islamabad: A special Pakistani anti-terrorism court in Islamabad on Saturday extended the judicial remand of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf by 14 days, in connection with his decision to place judges under house arrest during the 2007 emergency. "Pervez Musharraf's remand is extended for judicial lock-up for 14 days, he should be presented before the court on May 18," Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi ordered. Musharraf's lawyers filed a bail application...
08:46 PM, May 04, 2013
Islamabad: The party of former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf, facing a series of legal cases over his actions while in power, on Friday said it would boycott Pakistan's May 11, 2013 general election. The move came in the wake of the Peshawar High Court's order barring Musharraf from contesting polls for the rest of his life. Musharraf has also been arrested over the imposition of emergency rule in 2007,...
01:19 AM, May 04, 2013
Islamabad: The Pakistani prosecutor handling the 26/11 Mumbai attack case and the Benazir Bhutto assassination case has reportedly been shot dead in Islamabad. Chaudhry Zulfiqar, the prosecutor of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), was shot dead by unidentified armed men in Islamabad on Friday morning, Pakistan's Geo News reported. Reports say unidentified armed motorcycle-borne men opened fire on Chaudhry Zulfiqar. He was critically injured and was being rushed to the hospital...
09:22 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Nearly three decades after 2,500 Sikhs were killed in the 1984 riots, a Delhi court will on Tuesday pronounce its verdict on the role of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others in the killing of Sikhs. The case against Sajjan Kumar was opened on the recommendation of the Nanavati Commission. Sajjan Kumar has maintained a stoic silence on his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. In the...
08:24 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Damascus: Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination bid when a bomb exploded near his convoy in Damascus. The attack killed at least five people and left several others injured including the country's interior minister. The Prime Minister was not hurt. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the suicide attack. The UN has condemned the attack and the civil war, which has claimed more than 70 thousand...
07:33 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistani investigators probing the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto have decided to quiz Rehman Malik after being told by Pervez Musharraf that the former interior minister had decided details of her security on the day she was killed. Malik was head of Bhutto's security when she returned to Pakistan from self-exile in late 2007. Federal Investigation Agency officials who questioned the former president after his arrest over...
01:48 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Friday remanded Pervez Musharraf to the physical custody of the Federal Investigation Agency till April 30 in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007. During a brief hearing at the anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman accepted the FIA's request to be given physical custody of the 69-year-old former military ruler. The FIA's lawyers told the judge that they wanted...
12:11 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Islamabad: The Lahore High Court has cancelled former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf's interim bail in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case. This comes at a time when Musharraf is under house arrest in another case. Musharraf returned to his farmhouse which has been declared a sub-jail and where he was ordered to serve 14 days in judicial custody by an anti-terrorism court, in Islamabad on Saturday. He had spent the night...
02:12 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Wednesday extended Pervez Musharraf's bail over the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto even as the apex court summoned a top official to explain the government's position on taking action against the former dictator for imposing emergency in 2007. Musharraf, who returned home last month after nearly four years in self-exile, personally appeared before a division bench of the Lahore High Court in Rawalpindi for...
08:34 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Chennai: The video conferencing session of Perarivalan, a death row convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, with the Chief Information Commissioner planned on Monday over his RTI query has been postponed, a top police official said. "The session has been postponed. There is no information on when would be the next session," ADGP (Prisons) JK Tripathy told PTI. The hearing was to take place today on Perarivalan's Right to...
07:04 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Islamabad: Ex-President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday failed to appear before a Pakistani anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of suspects charged with involvement in the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto and was subsequently summoned for the next hearing on April 23. During proceedings held behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman summoned all the accused, including former military ruler Musharraf, for the next hearing. Musharraf...
02:10 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Reacting to the Supreme Court's verdict on Bhullar's mercy plea, lawyer of Rajiv Gandhi's killer M Radhakrishnan says the decision of the apex court has come as a big disappointment for him. "A Constitution bench of the SC had held that mere delay of 5 years or more for those who are facing death sentence to seek commutation to life sentence. I think the SC has been very harsh towards ...
12:32 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: The US Embassy cables accessed by WikiLeaks have claimed that there were three assassination attempts on late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's second son Sanjay Gandhi. A 1976 dispatch says Sanjay was the target of an unknown assailant in a "well planned assassination attempt" during the Emergency. It quotes Indian intelligence sources as saying that he was shot at three times on August 30 or 31, but escaped...
08:51 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Karachi: Pervez Musharraf, the former commando-turned-politician who returned to Pakistan on Sunday to lead his party in the May 11 polls, seeks to stage a political comeback after four years of self-imposed exile abroad. Delhi-born Musharraf's family migrated to Pakistan after the partition in 1947. Commissioned in the Pakistan Army in 1964, Musharraf rose to national prominence after being appointed to the four-star general in October 1998 by the then...
03:40 PM, Mar 24, 2013
New Delhi: Despite assassination threats from the Pakistani Taliban, former president Pervez Musharraf is set to return to Pakistan later on Sunday after four years of self-exile in London and Dubai. Musharraf will reach Karachi to lead the All Party Muslim League in the upcoming general elections in May 2013. Musharraf is accused of failing to provide adequate security to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ahead of her assassination in...
07:46 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict on death row in connection with the assassination of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, has said that he did not want anyone to defend him. Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and former IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann had recently sought stay Rajoana's hanging. ...
11:50 PM, Mar 16, 2013
The recent execution of Afzal Guru has brought the spotlight back on the legality of hanging those who have been serving long sentences in jail after being awarded the death sentence. ...
03:33 PM, Feb 24, 2013
A Pakistani court on Wednesday directed an anti-terrorism court to conduct daily hearings in the 2007 Benazir Bhutto assassination case and to conclude the trial within three months. ...
07:58 PM, Feb 13, 2013
President Asif Ali Zardari stopped Interior Minister Rehman Malik from making public a report on the investigation into the assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, according to a media report on Saturday. "Zardari barred Malik from presenting the report at a meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party that was held on Benazir's fifth death anniversary on Thursday," said the report. ...
04:55 PM, Dec 29, 2012
