Pakistani investigators will grill former military ruler Pervez Musharraf about a “threatening” phone call and email to Benazir Bhutto after an anti-terrorism court today ordered his inclusion in the probe into the ex-premier’s assassination in 2007.
Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman of the Rawalpindi-based anti-terrorism court today accepted a request from prosecutors to question Musharraf and to include him in the investigation into the 2007 assassination.
Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali of the Federal Investigation Agency told PTI that a joint investigation team will question Musharraf on two issues – making a threatening phone call to Bhutto and sending an email that warned her not to return to Pakistan, and failing to provide security to Bhutto.
Musharraf’s failure to provide security to Bhutto “indirectly facilitated and helped terrorists in executing their plan to murder” her, Ali said.