ISLAMABAD: Former President Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf was formally arrested in the Benazir Bhutto murder case on Thursday.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested Musharraf who will remain at his Chak Shahzad farmhouse residence but will be produced at the anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi on Friday.
Earlier in the day, the ATC allowed the FIA to include Pervez Musharraf in the investigation of the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
A joint team of FIA would investigate into the case at former President’s farmhouse in Chak Shahzad which has been declared a sub-jail.
The former military ruler has been embroiled in a number of cases against him ranging from judges’ detention to Benazir’s assassination to treason against the state since his return to Pakistan in a bid to contest the 2013 general election.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007 while Musharraf was president. She was killed after addressing an election campaign rally in the city.
The ATC had indicted Musharraf in the case in February 2011, and in August the same year he was declared a proclaimed offender and his property was attached because of his absence.
DND
