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Summary An anti-terrorism court on Saturday gave police two more weeks to arrest former president Pervez Musharraf in connection with assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Musharraf, who was president when Bhutto was killed in December 2007 in a gun and suicide bomb attack, is living in London and does not intend to return to Pakistan and appear in the court, his spokesman said.Earlier, Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad issued the arrest warrant on February 12 and reissued it a week later. Police requested the court to grant them a month to implement the court order but the judge gave only two weeks. Police also told the court that they have approached the Foreign Ministry in this regard to serve the notice to his residence in UK.The hearing took place in Adiyala Jail, in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, and was adjourned until March 19. The former president is alleged to have been part of a broad conspiracy to have his political rival killed before the general elections, though the exact nature of the charges against him is not clear.Benazir was killed after addressing an election rally on December 27, 2007.
