- Wednesday, April 24, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court declared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s murder trial Thursday, nearly 10 years after the iconic political figure was gunned down in the streets of Rawalpindi. The court dismissed charges against five alleged Taliban militants accused of being involved in the killing, while two police officers were found guilty of “mishandling the crime scene”, becoming the only people to be convicted in the case. The most definitive accounts of Bhutto’s death claim an assassin shot her in the neck and then blew himself up, killing 24 people. But observers said…
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